Severe Ecstasy poisoning in a toddler

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 498-501

  Duffy, Mike R ^a   Swart, M ^a  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ATRACURIUM; CEFOTAXIME; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; INTUBATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TABLET; TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

FEMALE; HALLUCINOGENS; HUMANS; INFANT; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; OVERDOSE; SEIZURES;

EID: 33645789835     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04620.x     Document Type: Article

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