Lithium poisoning: The value of early digestive tract decontamination

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 243-248

  Bretaudeau Deguigne, M ^a   Hamel, J F ^a   Boels, D ^a   Harry, P ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Lithium compounds; Overdose; Poison control centres; Sodium polystyrene sulphonate; Whole bowel irrigation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALIMEMAZINE; ALPRAZOLAM; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; CYAMEMAZINE; FLUOXETINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MIANSERIN; OXAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; POLYSTYRENESULFONATE SODIUM; TIANEPTINE; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT DECONTAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INTESTINE LAVAGE; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POISONING SEVERITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; THERAPY DELAY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; CATHARTICS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POLYSTYRENES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84876470295     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2013.782409     Document Type: Article

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