Low cost, high risk: Accidental nutmeg intoxication

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-225

  Demetriades, Andreas K ^a   Wallman, P D ^a   McGuiness, A ^a   Gavalas, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECREATIONAL DRUG;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; NAUSEA; NEUROMODULATION; NUTMEG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REHYDRATION; RESTLESSNESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; THIRST; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED; SPICES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 14944358156     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2002.004168     Document Type: Article

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