The Australasian clinical toxicology investigators collaboration randomized trial of different loading infusion rates of N-acetylcysteine

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 402-408

  Kerr, Fergus ^a   Dawson, Andrew ^b   Whyte, Ian M ^b   Buckley, Nicholas ^c   Murray, Lindsay ^d   Graudins, Andis ^e   Chan, Betty ^f   Trudinger, Barbara ^g  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; PARACETAMOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EAR DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFUSION RATE; INJURY; INNER EAR DISEASE; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VOMITING; ADULT; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER DISEASE; MALE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; NAUSEA;

EID: 17844391545     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.040     Document Type: Article

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