Recognition and Treatment of Acute Cyanide Poisoning

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Borron, Stephen W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; CYANIDE; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LONG TERM CARE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; TIME; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIDOTES; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CAUSALITY; CYANIDES; DECONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; OXYGEN; PATIENT SELECTION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POISONING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746016298     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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