Predicting outcome in acute organophosphorus poisoning with a poison severity score or the Glasgow coma scale

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 371-379

  Davies, James O J ^a,d   Eddleston, M ^a,b   Buckley, N A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^c Canberra Clinical School   (Australia)

^d HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ATROPINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; DIMETHOATE; FENTHION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PRALIDOXIME CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FATALITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ON CHEMICAL SAFETY POISON SEVERITY SCORE; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL REFLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF POISONING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42949107461     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcn014     Document Type: Article

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