Rare puffer fish poisoning - A case report

Medico-Legal Update

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 5-6

  Behera, A ^a   Dash, B K ^a   Barik, B K ^a  

^a VSS Medical College & Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Food poisoning; Ich thyotoxicosis; Puffer fish; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; ATROPINE; CEFTRIAXONE; DERIPHYLLINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSION FLUID; NEOSTIGMINE; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM; RANITIDINE; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRITABILITY; MICROSCOPY; OXYGEN BREATHING; PARESTHESIA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; PUFFER FISH; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH LAVAGE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

EID: 56749157662     PISSN: 0971720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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