Use of antipsychotics to treat cocaine toxicity?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-

  Wu, Stanley ^a   Pearl Davis, Michelle S ^a   Manini, Alex F ^b   Hoffman, Robert S ^c  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY POISON CONTROL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; ZIPRASIDONE; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HYPERTHERMIA; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SEDATION; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DIAZEPAM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; PIPERAZINES; THIAZOLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449131582     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2007.00020.x     Document Type: Letter

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