Organic phosphorus compounds - Nerve agents

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 673-689

  Barthold, Claudia L ^a   Schier, Joshua G ^a  

^a GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PRALIDOXIME;

AIRWAY; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRONCHOSPASM; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MICTURITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVATION; SEIZURE; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SYNAPSE; TERRORISM; VOMITING;

EID: 24944510819     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2005.05.010     Document Type: Review

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