Extracorporeal treatment for lithium poisoning: Systematic review and recommendations from the EXTRIP workgroup

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 875-887

  Decker, Brian S ^b,b   Goldfarb, David S ^b,b   Dargan, Paul I ^b   Friesen, Marjorie ^b   Gosselin, Sophie ^b,b   Hoffman, Robert S ^b,b   Lavergne, Valéry ^b   Nolin, Thomas D ^b   Ghannoum, Marc ^a   Extrip Workgroup, ^b   Anseeuw, Kurt ^b   Bhalla, Ashish ^b   Burdmann, Emmanuel A ^b   Calello, Diane P ^b   Galvao, Tais F ^b   Hoegberg, Lotte C ^b   Juurlink, David N ^b   Kielstein, Jan T ^b   Laliberté, Martin ^b   Liu, Kathleen D ^b   Li, Yi ^b   MacLaren, Robert ^b   Mactier, Robert ^b   Mégarbane, Bruno ^b   Mowry, James B ^b   Phan, Véronique ^b   Roberts, Darren M ^b   Sowinski, Kevin M ^b   Wiegand, Timothy J ^b   Winchester, James F ^b   Yates, Christopher ^b   more..

^a Verdun Hospital   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANQUILIZER;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; REBOUND; SEIZURE; TOXICOKINETICS; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DELPHI STUDY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN;

ANTIMANIC AGENTS; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DRUG OVERDOSE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84929116781     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.10021014     Document Type: Article

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