Severity (and treatment) of chronic lithium poisoning: Clinical signs or lab results as a criterion?

Acta Clinica Belgica

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-128

  Vermeire, Sylvie ^a   Vanbrabant, P ^a   Van Boxstael, P ^a   Sabbe, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis; Lithium; Poisoning; Serum concentrations

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOVOLEMIA; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE PERFUSION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 77952002068     PISSN: 00015512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/acb.2010.025     Document Type: Article

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