A poison center's ten-year experience with flumazenil administration to acutely poisoned adults

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-682

  Kreshak, Allyson A ^a   Cantrell, F Lee ^b   Clark, Richard F ^a,b   Tomaszewski, Christian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Poison Control Center   (United States)

Author keywords

antidote; benzodiazepine; flumazenil; poisoning; seizures

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; BENZATROPINE; BUSPIRONE; CARISOPRODOL; CLONAZEPAM; CODEINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FLUMAZENIL; KETOROLAC; LORAZEPAM; LOXAPINE; MEPROBAMATE; PARACETAMOL; RANITIDINE; TIAGABINE; TRAMADOL; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDOTES; BENZODIAZEPINES; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVULSANTS; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867331975     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.01.059     Document Type: Article

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