Are one or two dangerous? Tricyclic antidepressant exposure in toddlers

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-174

  Rosenbaum, Tina G ^a   Kou, Maybelle ^b   Love, Jeffrey N ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Children; Overdose; Pediatrics; Poisoning; Toxicity; Tricyclic antidepressants

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FATALITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; LETHALITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PILL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; TOXICITY;

EID: 13544252653     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2004.08.018     Document Type: Article

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