Recognizing serotonin toxicity in the pediatric emergency department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 817-824

  Kant, Shruti ^a   Liebelt, Erica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

cyproheptadine; overdose; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs); serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs); serotonin syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CITALOPRAM; CYPROHEPTADINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; ESCITALOPRAM; SEROTONIN; TRAZODONE; VENLAFAXINE;

ANTICHOLINERGIC SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERTENSION; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PRIAPISM; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; TACHYCARDIA;

CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84864842460     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31826289d9     Document Type: Review

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