Pre-hospital treatment of acute poisonings in Oslo

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Heyerdahl, Fridtjof ^a   Hovda, Knut E ^a   Bjornaas, Mari A ^a,b   Nore, Anne K ^c   Figueiredo, Jose C P ^a   Ekeberg, Oivind ^a,b   Jacobsen, Dag ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Oslo Emergency Ward   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIDOTE; DIAMORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORWAY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POISON CENTER; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NORWAY; POISONING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58049206805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-8-15     Document Type: Article

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