Acute Iron Poisoning: Clinical Picture, Intensive Care Needs and Outcome

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1177-1182

  Singhi, Sunit C ^a,b   Baranwal, Arun K ^a   Jayashree, M ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Pediat Emergency/Intensive Care U   (India)

Author keywords

Acute iron poisoning; Critical care

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; DOPAMINE; IRON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; SHOCK; STOMACH LAVAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TABLET; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINE COLOR; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; IRON; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; MALE; OVERDOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347513525     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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