Heart rate-corrected QT interval helps predict mortality after intentional organophosphate poisoning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Shou Hsuan ^a   Lin, Ja Liang ^a   Weng, Cheng Hao ^a   Yang, Huang Yu ^a   Hsu, Ching Wei ^a   Chen, Kuan Hsing ^a   Huang, Wen Hung ^a   Yen, Tzung Hai ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ATROPINE; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PRALIDOXIME; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHORRHEA; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; STOMACH LAVAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOMITING; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860503101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036576     Document Type: Article

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