Systematic review of controlled clinical trials of gastric lavage in acute organophosphorus pesticide poisoning

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-192

  Li, Yi ^a   Tse, M L ^b   Gawarammana, Indika ^c   Buckley, Nick ^d   Eddleston, Michael ^e  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Hong Kong Poison Information Centre   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastric lavage; Pesticides; RCT

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; MANNITOL; NALOXONE; NORADRENALIN; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PRALIDOXIME; SCOPOLAMINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE REACTIVATOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; FATALITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE POISONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PH; PLASMAPHERESIS; REVIEW; SELF POISONING; STOMACH LAVAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; CHOLINESTERASE REACTIVATORS; DIURETICS; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LAPAROTOMY; MANNITOL; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PESTICIDES; PLASMA EXCHANGE; POISONING; PRALIDOXIME COMPOUNDS; SCOPOLAMINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64049096392     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701846262     Document Type: Review

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