Acute amitraz poisoning in adults: Clinical features, laboratory findings, and management

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-23

  Avsarogullari, Levent ^a,b   Ikizceli, Ibrahim ^a   Sungur, Murat ^a   Sözüer, Erdoǧan ^a   Akdur, Okhan ^a   Yücei, Murat ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adult; Amitraz; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRAZ; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATIPAMEZOLE; ATROPINE; CARBAMIC ACID; CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; GLUCOSE; INOTROPIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; NALOXONAZINE; NORADRENALIN; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PRALIDOXIME; YOHIMBINE; INSECTICIDE; TOLUIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMITRAZ POISONING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MIOSIS; MYDRIASIS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOLUIDINES;

EID: 33644880245     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650500357545     Document Type: Article

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