Altered Mental Status

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-448

  Wong, Jason ^a   Traub, Stephen J ^b,c   Macnow, Laura ^b,c   Kulchycki, Lara K ^b,c  

^a Jefferson Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOCAINE; BICARBONATE; DAPSONE; ETOMIDATE; FLUTAMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METHYLENE BLUE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MONOLINURON; NALOXONE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PARACETAMOL; PARAQUAT; PHENACETIN; PHENAZOPYRIDINE; PRILOCAINE; PRIMAQUINE; SULFONAMIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL INSTABILITY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 55649101175     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.08.006     Document Type: Note

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