Salicylate intoxication: A clinical review

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 162-168

  Pearlman, Brian L ^a,b,c,d   Gambhir, Rashi ^a  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Chronic; Intoxication; Salicylate; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS BUTALBITAL PLUS CAFFEINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS DIPYRIDAMOLE; ACRIPTIN; ACTIVATED CARBON; ALBUMIN; ANACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BC AND GOODY POWDER; BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE; CHOLINE MAGNESIUM TRISALICYLATE; CREATININE; DIURETIC AGENT; ENDODAN; EXCEDRIN; GLUCOSE; KAOLIN PECTIN; MESALAZINE; NITROGEN; PAMPRIN; POTASSIUM; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SODIUM; ST JOSEPH ASPIRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINIZATION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; DIURESIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DYSPNEA; EAR DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INGESTION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONCARDIOGENIC LUNG EDEMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; PULSE RATE; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; SEPSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINE PH; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; SALICYLATES;

EID: 68249094108     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2009.07.2041     Document Type: Article

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