Update on antidotes for pediatric poisoning

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 740-746

  White, Marjorie Lee ^a,b   Liebelt, Erica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetaminophen; Antidote; Ethylene glycol; Methanol; Nerve gas; Poisoning; Snakebites

Indexed keywords

4 METHYLPYRAZOLE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ATROPEN; ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CROFAB; DIAZEPAM; ETHYLENE; GLYCOL; LORAZEPAM; METHANOL; MIDAZOLAM; NERVE GAS; PARACETAMOL; PRALIDOXIME; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ALLERGIC REACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENVENOMATION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INTOXICATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKEBITE; URTICARIA; WHEEZING;

EID: 33751188306     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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