Efficacy and safety of naloxone in the management of postseizure complaints of tramadol intoxicated patients: A self-controlled study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 928-930

  Saidi, Hossein ^a   Ghadiri, Mohammad ^a   Abbasi, Saeed ^a   Ahmadi, Seyed Foad ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; TRAMADOL;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISORIENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG SAFETY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTSEIZURE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CONSCIOUSNESS MONITORS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; TRAMADOL;

EID: 78649810201     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.083162     Document Type: Article

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