To Decontaminate or Not to Decontaminate? The Balance Between Potential Risks and Foreseeable Benefits

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Bailey, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; IBUPROFEN; IPECAC; LAXATIVE; LORAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; VENLAFAXINE; ZALEPLON;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BEER; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMA; CORNEA INJURY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; EUROPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTESTINE LAVAGE; LARYNX SPASM; LETHARGY; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POISON CENTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; STOMACH LAVAGE; STOMACH PERFORATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VODKA; VOMITING; WHISKEY;

EID: 40349093490     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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