National audit of antidote stocking in acute hospitals in the UK

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 393-396

  Thanacoody, Ruben H K ^a   Aldridge, Gloria ^b   Laing, Willie ^c   Dargan, Paul I ^d   Nash, Stephen ^e   Thompson, John P ^b   Vale, Allister ^f   Bateman, Nick ^c   Thomas, Simon ^a  

^a National Poisons Information Service (Newcastle)   (United Kingdom)

^b National Poisons Information Service (Cardiff)   (United Kingdom)

^c National Poisons Information Service (Edinburgh)   (United Kingdom)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e 7 9 Bream's Buildings   (United Kingdom)

^f National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 METHYLPYRAZOLE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACTIVATED CARBON; ALCOHOL; ANTIDOTE; BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; COBALT EDETATE; CYPROHEPTADINE; DANTROLENE; DEFEROXAMINE; DIGOXIN ANTIBODY F(AB) FRAGMENT; EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; FLUMAZENIL; FOLINATE CALCIUM; GLUCAGON; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; INTRALIPID; MACROGOL; METHYLENE BLUE; NALOXONE; OCTREOTIDE; PHYTOMENADIONE; PRALIDOXIME; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SODIUM NITRITE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; SUCCIMER; UNITHIOL; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CYANIDE POISONING; DRUG STOCKING; DRUG STORAGE; GLYCOL POISONING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTIDOTES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84877631479     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201224     Document Type: Article

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