Drug overdose: A wake up call! Experience at a tertiary care centre in Karachi, Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 298-301

  Patel, Muhammad Junaid ^a   Shahid, Muhammad ^a   Riaz, Mehmood ^a   Kashif, Waqaruddin ^a   Ayaz, Syed Imran ^a   Khan, Muhammad Shoaib ^a   Samdani, A Jawwad ^a   Sorathia, Ayesha L ^a   Furqan, Muhammad ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DIGOXIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTICONVULSANTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WARFARIN;

EID: 44449132080     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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