Consensus statement: Risk of nosocomial organophosphate poisoning in emergency departments

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 456-458

  Little, Mark ^a   Murray, Lindsay ^b  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PRALIDOXIME;

AIR CONDITIONING; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSENSUS; COUGHING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EYE IRRITATION; FATALITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LACRIMATION; MEDICAL STAFF; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESUSCITATION; SELF POISONING; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 9244255251     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2004.00649.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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