Poisoning with Ethanol and 2-Propanol-Based Hand Rubs: Give Caesar What Belongs to Caesar!

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 226-228

  Mégarbane, Bruno ^a   Villa, Antoine ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PYRUVIC ACID;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMA; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INGESTION; KETOACIDOSIS; KETONURIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; VASODILATATION; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); PANDEMIC;

2-PROPANOL; COMA; ETHANOL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; PANDEMICS;

EID: 85042400421     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9353-2     Document Type: Letter

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