Extracorporeal treatment for tricyclic antidepressant poisoning: Recommendations from the EXTRIP workgroup

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 381-389

  Yates, Christopher ^a   Galvao, Tais ^b   Sowinski, Kevin M ^c   Mardini, Karine ^d   Botnaru, Tudor ^e   Gosselin, Sophie ^f   Hoffman, Robert S ^g   Nolin, Thomas D ^h   Lavergne, Valéry ⁱ   Ghannoum, Marc ^d   Anseeuw, Kurt ^j   Bhalla, Ashish ^j   Burdmann, Emmanuel A ^j   Dargan, Paul I ^j   Decker, Brian S ^j   Goldfarb, David S ^j   Hoegberg, Lotte C ^j   Juurlink, David ^j   Laliberté, Martin ^j   Kielstein, Jan T ^j   Li, Yi ^j   Liu, Kathleen D ^j   MacLaren, Robert ^j   Mactier, Robert ^j   Mégarbane, Bruno ^j   Mowry, James B ^j   Phan, Véronique ^j   Roberts, Darren M ^j   Wiegand, Timothy J ^j   Winchester, James F ^j   more..

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^j Department of Nephrology Verdun Hospital University of Montreal ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84904036657     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sdi.12227     Document Type: Article

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