Availability, stability, and sterility of pralidoxime for mass casualty use

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 272-277

  Corvino, Timothy F ^a   Nahata, Milap C ^a   Angelos, Mark G ^a   Tschampel, Marva M ^a   Morosco, Richard S ^a   Zerkle, Jocelyn ^b   Nelson, Richard N ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Central Ohio Trauma System   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRALIDOXIME;

ARTICLE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STERILITY; DRUG STORAGE; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANTIDOTES; CHEMICAL TERRORISM; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG STABILITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; POISONING; PRALIDOXIME COMPOUNDS;

EID: 32944460580     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.10.020     Document Type: Article

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