Extracorporeal treatment for metformin poisoning: Systematic review and recommendations from the extracorporeal treatments in poisoning workgroup

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1716-1730

  Calello, Diane P ^a   Liu, Kathleen D ^b,c   Wiegand, Timothy J ^a   Roberts, Darren M ^d   Lavergne, Valéry ^e   Gosselin, Sophie ^f   Hoffman, Robert S ^g   Nolin, Thomas D ^h   Ghannoum, Marc ⁱ  

^a MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biguanide; Hemodialysis; Hemofiltration; Lactate; Overdose; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; LACTIC ACID; METFORMIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSENSUS; DELPHI STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INTOXICATION; ELIMINATION HALF-LIFE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SHOCK; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; SODIUM LOAD; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOLUME OF DISTRIBUTION; ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; PH; PROCEDURES; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; METFORMIN; RENAL DIALYSIS; SHOCK;

EID: 84942524266     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001002     Document Type: Review

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