Severity Grading in Self-poisoning

Human & Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 551-555

  Starmark, J E ^a   Heath, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; SELF POISONING; STOMACH LAVAGE;

EID: 84973816438     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096032718800700606     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Bozza Marrubini M. Classifications of coma. Intensive Care Medicine 1984; 10: 217-226.
2. Teasdale G. & Jennett B. Assessment and prognosis of coma after head injury. Acta Neurochirurgica (Wien) 1976; 35: 45-55.
3. Matthew H. & Lawson Aah. Acute barbiturate poisoning — a review of two years experience. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 1966; 35: 539-552.
4. Starmark J-E., Stålhammar D., & Holmgren E. The reaction level scale (RLS85). Manual and guidelines. Acta Neurochirurgica (Wien) 1988; 91: 12-20.
5. Teasdale G., Knill-Jones R.P. & van der Sande J. Observer variability in assessing impaired consciousness and coma. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 1978; 41: 603-610.
6. Marshall L.F. Becker D.P. Bowers S.A. et al. The National Traumatic Coma Data Bank. Part I: Design, purpose, goals and results. Journal of Neurosurgery 1983; 58: 276-284.
7. Fleiss J.L. Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. Psychological Bulletin 1971; 76: 378-382.
8. Bishop Ymm, Fienberg S.E. & Holland P.W. Discrete Multivariate Analysis, pp. 393-7. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1975.
9. Miller J.D. & Teasdale G.M. Clinical trials for assessing treatment for severe head injury. In Central Nervous System Trauma, Status report, eds D.P. Becker & J.T. Povlishock, pp. 17-32. Washington: NIH, 1985.
10. Boehnert M.T. & Lovejoy F.H. Jr. Value of the QRS duration versus the serum drug level in predicting seizures and ventricular arrhythmias after an acute overdose of tricyclic antidepressants. New England Journal of Medicine 1985; 313: 474-479.
11. Emerman C.L. Connors A.F. & Burma G.M. Level of consciousness as a predictor of complications following tricyclic overdose. Annals of Emergency Medicine 1987; 16: 326-330.
12. Teasdale G. & Jennett B. Assessment of coma and impairment of consciousness. A practical scale. Lancet 1974; ii: 81-84.
13. Braakman R., Avezaat Cjj, Maas A.I. et al. Interobserver agreement in the assessment of the motor response of the Glasgow coma scale. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 1977; 80: 100-106.
14. Minderhood J.M. Huizenga J., van Woerkom Tcam, et al. The pattern of recovery after severe head injury. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 1982; 84: 15-28.
15. Galbraith S., Murray W.R. Patel A.R. et al. The relationship between alcohol and head injury and its effect on the conscious level. British Journal of Surgery 1976; 63: 128-130.
16. Jagger J., Fife D., Vernberg K., et al. Effect of alcohol intoxication on the diagnosis and apparent severity of brain injury. Neurosurgery 1984; 15: 303-306.
17. Greenberg D.A. & Simon R.P. Flexor and extensor postures in sedative drug-induced coma. Neurology (NY) 1982; 32: 448-451.