Energy Drinks: The New Eye-Opener For Adolescents

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-42

  Babu, Kavita M ^a   Church, Richard James ^a   Lewander, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; caffeine; carnitine; energy drink; guarana; taurine; withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AMIODARONE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARNITINE; DIAZEPAM; ESMOLOL; GINSENG EXTRACT; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; METOPROLOL; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPOFOL; PROPRANOLOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SOTALOL; TAURINE; VASOPRESSIN; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CACAO; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COFFEE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRYSTALLOID; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD POISONING; GINSENG; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PATIENT MONITORING; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXICOKINETICS; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 40249100293     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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