Medications That Can Be Fatal for a Toddler with One Tablet or Teaspoonful: A 2004 Update

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-126

  Bar Oz, Benjamin ^a,b   Levichek, Zina ^a   Koren, Gideon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAMPHOR; CHLOROQUINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHLORPROPAMIDE; CODEINE; DESIPRAMINE; DILTIAZEM; DISOPYRAMIDE; FLECAINIDE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLIPIZIDE; HYDROCODONE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMIPRAMINE; LOXAPINE; METHADONE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PROCAINAMIDE; QUINIDINE; QUININE; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; THIORIDAZINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VERAPAMIL; OPIATE; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; QUININE DERIVATIVE;

DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG TOXICITY; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INGESTION; LETHAL DOSE; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXICITY TESTING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG LABELING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; NORTH AMERICA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANNUAL REPORTS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; IRON COMPOUNDS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TABLETS;

EID: 1842763590     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00148581-200406020-00005     Document Type: Review

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