Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning: An evidence-based consensus guideline for out-of-hospital management

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-233

  Woolf, Alan D ^a   Erdman, Andrew R ^a   Nelson, Lewis S ^a   Caravati, E Martin ^a   Cobaugh, Daniel J ^a   Booze, Lisa L ^a   Wax, Paul M ^a   Manoguerra, Anthony S ^a   Scharman, Elizabeth J ^a   Olson, Kent R ^a   Chyka, Peter A ^a   Christianson, Gwenn ^a   Troutman, William G ^a  

^a American Association of Poison Control Centers   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressive agents, tricyclic poisoning; Poison control centers standards; Practice guidelines

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AMITRIPTYLINE; BICARBONATE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DIAZEPAM; DOXEPIN; IMIPRAMINE; IPECAC; NORTRIPTYLINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; THIORIDAZINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALERTNESS; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; CONVULSION; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECG ABNORMALITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALLING; FLUSHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EDEMA; NAUSEA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POISON CENTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ST SEGMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREMOR; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIDOTES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; OUTPATIENTS; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; TRIAGE;

EID: 34047223602     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701226192     Document Type: Review

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