Letter to the editor: "Severe neurotoxicity following oral meperidine (pethidine) overdose" [4]

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 200-201

  Karunatilake, Harindra ^a   Buckley, Nicholas A ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; PETHIDINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; NEUROTOXICITY; BLOOD; HOSPITALIZATION; INTOXICATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEPERIDINE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OVERDOSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847093891     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650600981194     Document Type: Letter

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