A novel cause of intrathecal baclofen overdosage: Lessons to be learnt

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-190

  Dalton, Catherine ^a   Keenan, Elizabeth ^a   Stevenson, Val ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HIP DISLOCATION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NYSTAGMUS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PUMP; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SPASTICITY;

BACLOFEN; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE;

EID: 40549145898     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215507081962     Document Type: Article

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