Digoxin-specific Fab fragments as single first-line therapy in digitalis poisoning

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3014-3018

  Lapostolle, Frédéric ^a,b   Borron, Stephen W ^b,c   Verdier, Carine ^a   Taboulet, Pierre ^d   Guerrier, Gilles ^b   Adnet, Frédéric ^a   Clemessy, Jean Luc ^b   Bismuth, Chantal ^b   Baud, Fréd́ric J ^b  

^a AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Antidote; Digitalis; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ATROPINE; DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDE; DIGITOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; DIGITALIS INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH LAVAGE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATROPINE; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDES; DIGITOXIN; DIGOXIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 48149103426     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31818b341c     Document Type: Article

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