Expert Consensus Guidelines for Stocking of Antidotes in Hospitals That Provide Emergency Care

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dart, Richard C ^a,j   Borron, Stephen W ^b   Caravati, E Martin ^c   Cobaugh, Daniel J ^d   Curry, Steven C ^e   Falk, Jay L ^f   Goldfrank, Lewis ^g   Gorman, Susan E ^h   Groft, Stephen ⁱ   Heard, Kennon ^a,j   Miller, Ken ^l   Olson, Kent R ^m   O'Malley, Gerald ⁿ   Seger, Donna ^o   Seifert, Steven A ^p   Sivilotti, Marco L A ^q   Schaeffer, Tammi ^a,j   Tomassoni, Anthony J ^r   Wise, Robert ^s   Bogdan, Gregory M ^a,k   Alhelail, Mohammed ^a   Buchanan, Jennie ^a   Hoppe, Jason ^a   Lavonas, Eric ^a,j   Mlynarchek, Sara ^a   Phua, Dong Haur ^a   Rhyee, Sean ^a   Varney, Shawn ^a   Zosel, Amy ^a   more..

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Utah Poison Control Center   (United States)

^d AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS   (United States)

^e BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g NEW YORK CITY POISON CONTROL CENTER   (United States)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

ⁱ Intramural Program   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^l Orange County Fire Authority   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^o Division of Clinical Pharmacology   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^q QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^r YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^s Joint Commission   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE;

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PHARMACY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 68649103961     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.01.023     Document Type: Article

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