SALT: A Case For the Sodium Channel Blockade Toxidrome and the Mnemonic SALT

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-

  Lester, Laeben ^a   McLaughlin, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LANGUAGE; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKADE TOXIDROME; SODIUM CHANNELOPATHY; SYMPTOM;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; SHOCK; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 38149068920     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.09.028     Document Type: Letter

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