A risk assessment based approach to the management of acute poisoning

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 396-399

  Daly, F F S ^a,b,c   Little, Mark ^b,d,e   Murray, L ^b,d,e  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Poisons Information Centre   (Australia)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACTIVATED CARBON; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDOTE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIGOXIN ANTIBODY; ISONIAZID; NALOXONE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; CHARCOAL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG COST; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LAVAGE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POISON CENTER; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STOMACH LAVAGE;

ANTIDOTES; CHARCOAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HUMANS; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745005923     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.030312     Document Type: Article

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