Twenty five years of poison center experience with propoxyphene overdoses the FDA could not find Letter to the editor

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 905-906

  Hayes, Bryan D ^a   Anderson, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE NAPSILATE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE PLUS PARACETAMOL; PARACETAMOL;

CARDIOTOXICITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG OVERDOSE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; POISON CENTER; QRS INTERVAL PROLONGATION; QT PROLONGATION; SEIZURE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 70350439235     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650903301702     Document Type: Letter

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