Acute caffeine ingestion: Clinical features in patients attending the Emergency Department and Scottish Poison Centre enquiries between 2000 and 2008

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 3-6

  Waring, W S ^a   Laing, W J ^a   Good, A M ^a   Malkowska, A M ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Drug misuse; Epidemiology; Overdose; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ACUTE CAFFEINE INGESTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY WARD; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INGESTION; LABORATORY TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 72449120467     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmsmj.54.4.3     Document Type: Article

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