A mixture of organophosphate and pyrethroid intoxication requiring intensive care unit admission: A diagnostic dilemma and therapeutic approach

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 410-412

  Tripathi, Mukesh ^a   Pandey, Rajesh ^b   Ambesh, Sushil P ^b   Pandey, Mamta ^b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PYRETHROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG MIXTURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 33746561875     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000222470.89210.5a     Document Type: Article

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