Response to "two routine blood tests-mean copuscular volume and aspartate aminotransferase-as predictors of delirium tremens in trauma patients"

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1516-1517

  Story, David J ^a   Hoffman, Robert S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; BLOOD EXAMINATION; DELIRIUM TREMENS; HUMAN; INJURY; LETTER; MALNUTRITION; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MUSCLE INJURY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BENZODIAZEPINES; HALOPERIDOL; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPOFOL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953738212     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e33b29     Document Type: Letter

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