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Pharmacokinetics of Haemoperfusion for Drug Overdose

Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 1979
Haemoperfusion has been used increasingly in treatment of patients with drug overdose. Blood is pumped from the patient through a column of adsorbent material and recirculated back to the patient. The adsorbent materials, activated charcoal and Amberlite XAD-4 resin, avidly bind particular drugs so that extraction from blood, including protein bound ...
S, Pond, J, Rosenberg, N L, Benowitz, S, Takki   +3 more
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Drug overdose — reducing the load

Medical Journal of Australia, 1992
To review available information about various methods for reducing gastrointestinal absorption of a poison or drug.Articles on overdose and accidental poisoning generated by the Australian Medlars Service and concentrating on the period between 1985 and 1990 were surveyed.
D, Jawary, P A, Cameron, L, Dziukas, J J, McNeil   +3 more
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Attempted Suicide by Drug Overdose

Postgraduate Medicine, 1971
In the hands of depressed persons, prescriptions for sedative-hypnotic agents and psychotherapeutic drugs can be instruments of suicide. The prescription drugs used most often are the barbiturates. The profile of the high-risk patient is becoming clearer.Signs of an impending suicidal attempt are usually more overt in the adult than in the teen-ager ...
R L, Weddige, R M, Stenhilber
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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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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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Drugs in overdose

2023
Abstract This chapter contains seven True/False Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) and seven Single Best Answers (SBAs) on drugs in overdose. These high-quality pharmacology practice questions are tailored to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA), the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC), and Fellowship ...
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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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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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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 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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