Case of the month: "Oh! Drat! - A case of transcutaneous superwarfarin poisoning and its recurrent presentation"

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 307-308

  Binks, Simon ^a   Davies, Phil ^a  

^a CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHACINONE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; RODENTICIDE; SUPERWARFARIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTOXICATION; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECURRENT DISEASE;

HEMATURIA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISONING; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECURRENCE; RODENTICIDES; VITAMIN K; WARFARIN;

EID: 34247241007     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.044925     Document Type: Article

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