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Drug overdoses

2010
Overdoses: general approach 692 Drug overdoses and antidotes 694 Amphetamines 696 Antipsychotic drugs 697 Benzodiazepines 698 β‎-blockers 699 Calcium channel blockers ...
Punit S. Ramrakha, Kevin P. Moore, Amir H. Sam   +2 more
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Epidemiology of Drug Overdose in Children

Drug Safety, 1993
Childhood drug overdoses are a continuing important public health problem. Although drug overdoses are no longer the important cause of childhood mortality they once were, such poisonings account for highly frequent and unacceptable instances of childhood injuries. These poisonings exact a high cost from society.
A D, Woolf, F H, Lovejoy
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Changes in the pattern of drug overdoses

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1993
To describe changes in the pattern of patients with drug overdoses hospitalized over the past two decades.Retrospective data review.A 719-bed university-affiliated hospital.All adults admitted to the hospital with drug overdoses in 1968, 1979, and 1989.Changes in demographics, drugs used, and discharge disposition.A majority of patients admitted with ...
M D, Stein, J, Bonanno, P S, O'Sullivan, T J, Wachtel   +3 more
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Management of cardiac drug overdose

Resuscitation, 1984
Although overdoses from cardiac drugs are uncommon, these are compounds with narrow therapeutic indices and they may give rise to serious acute toxicity from accidental, deliberate or even iatrogenic overdosage. Through the National Poisons Information Service for England and the Poisons Unit laboratory, we monitor reports of serious toxicity from this
G N, Volans, D W, Holt, C, Ali
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Emergency management of drug overdose

Critical Care Nurse, 1993
Successful management of patients presenting after intentional, accidental, acute or chronic overdose depends on prompt identification of drugs ingested, an organized approach of care that centers around stabilization, patient assessment, gastric evacuation, GI/systemic elimination, patient education and psychiatric evaluation.
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Drug overdoses

2016
Chapter 9 covers drug overdoses, including information about the general approach to overdose, and the drugs that may be involved in presenting overdose patients.
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Drug Overdose

Drug overdoses have been increasing rapidly worldwide, particularly in the United States and Canada. Even when nonfatal, overdoses have a high potential for lasting health consequences. In the United States, the majority of drug overdose deaths are classified as unintentional/accidental.
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Drug Overdose and the Full Moon

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
This study assessed the relationship between the phase of the full moon and the incidence of overdose as reported in five metropolitan Phoenix hospitals and the Maricopa County Medical Examiner over the 15-mo. period from January 1, 1976, through and including March 31, 1977.
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Prescription drug overdoses: A review

Journal of Safety Research, 2012
Overdoses involving prescription drugs in the United States have reached epidemic proportions over the past 20 years.This review categorizes and summarizes literature on the topic dating from the first published reports through 2011 using a traditional epidemiologic model of host, agent, and environment.Host factors include male sex, middle age, non ...
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Drug Overdose

The American Journal of Nursing, 1989
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