Are one or two dangerous? Quinine and quinidine exposure in toddlers

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-401

  Huston, Michelle ^a   Levinson, Michael ^b  

^a Franklin Square Hospital Center   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

children; overdose; pediatrics; poisoning; quinidine; quinine; toddlers; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHARCOAL; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; ISOAMYLETHYLBARBITURATE QUINIDINE; LIDOCAINE; NITRATE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; QUINIDINE; QUINIDINE DERIVATIVE; QUINIDINE SULFATE; QUININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLINDNESS; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CINCHONISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EYE TOXICITY; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART PROARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PLASMA PROTEIN BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; STOMACH LAVAGE; SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; TINNITUS; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INFANT; OVERDOSE; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; QUINIDINE; QUININE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749676978     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.07.018     Document Type: Article

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