Cardiac Glycoside Toxicity. More Than 200 Years and Counting.

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-535

  Kanji, Salmaan ^a   MacLean, Robert D ^b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac glycosides; Digitoxin; Digoxin; Digoxin specific antibody fragments; Immunoglobulin fragments; Overdose; Toxicity; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTIBODY; ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; COLESTYRAMINE; DIGITALIS; DIGITOXIN; DIGOXIN; DIGOXIN SPECIFIC ANTIBODY FRAGMENT; DILTIAZEM; ESMOLOL; LIDOCAINE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; PHENYTOIN; POISON; POTASSIUM; SORBITOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

CARDIOTOXICITY; DEATH; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTIDOTES; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDES; DIGOXIN; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA;

EID: 84866490607     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: 15578232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2012.07.005     Document Type: Review

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