Nerve agent toxicity and treatment

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-98

  Holstege, Christopher P ^a   Dobmeier, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; METHYLPHOSPHONOTHIOIC ACID S (2 DIISOPROPYLAMINOETHYL) O ETHYL ESTER; MIDAZOLAM; MYDRIATIC AGENT; NERVE GAS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PRALIDOXIME; PRALIDOXIME CHLORIDE; SARIN; SOMAN; TABUN;

BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG MECHANISM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EYE TOXICITY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETHALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKIN TOXICITY; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

EID: 14744290965     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-005-0018-y     Document Type: Review

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