Multiple centrally acting antidotes protect against severe organophosphate toxicity

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-364

  Sivilotti, Marco L A ^a,b   Bird, Steven B ^c   Lo, Jean C Y ^d   Dickson, Eric W ^d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ontario Poison Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical warfare agents; Cholinergic antagonists; Cholinesterase inhibitors; Dichlorvos; Insecticides; Organophosphorus compounds

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIAZEPAM; DICHLORVOS; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; INTOXICATION; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; DIAZEPAM; DICHLORVOS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLYCOPYRROLATE; INSECTICIDES; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; POISONING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; XYLAZINE;

EID: 33645326212     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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