B Bailey

..To describe the death of a toddler after a therapeutic dose of dextromethorphan and its investigation...

..To summarize and compare different prognostic criteria used to determine need for liver transplantation in patients with fulminant hepatic failure secondary to acetaminophen poisoning...

..Telephone counseling should be considered in selected cases to ensure that all women get relevant information at the time of appointment booking...

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..To study the availability of 13 specific antidotes in hospitals and correlate the availability of those antidotes to the number of poisonings seen in hospitals using N-acetylcysteine and naloxone consumption as a surrogate...

..7%) or mortality (0/224 patients 95% CI 0 to 1.3%). The guidelines were helpful in determining the need of cardiac monitoring in children after an electrical injury without any apparent risk...

..We reviewed evidence suggesting teratogenic risk associated with the use of antidotes in the acute management of poisoned pregnant women...

..Acetaminophen is a common cause of poisoning in children. Recent American studies suggest that acetaminophen poisonings pose serious risks in children, particularly in the case of chronic poisoning caused by therapeutic error...

..To measure the median time required for healthcare professionals to identify drugs on resuscitation trays and to assess the usefulness of an online training module used to identify drugs on resuscitation trays...

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..Glucagon is usually accepted as part of the standard treatment in the management of patients with beta-blocker and calcium channel blocker overdoses...

..Furthermore, during the patient observation or just before discharge, a social evaluation will need to be done. Moreover, if the ingestion is voluntary, a psychiatric evaluation will also need to be done...

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..To assess the prevalence of neurologic and neuropsychological symptoms in the short-term and 1 year after an electric shock and to explore whether any of these were associated with risk factors...

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..To report our experience monitoring patients with previously identified theoretical risk factors of significant electrical injury...

..Midazolam is widely used for procedural sedation and analgesia. Etomidate has been studied mostly in adults. Our objective is to compare the efficacy of etomidate and midazolam for achieving procedural sedation and analgesia in children...

..Furthermore, the symptoms of methylphenidate ingestion in preschool children have not been previously defined...

..Understanding key concepts in the field of diagnostic testing can not only help improve future studies but also explain why diagnostic tests currently used by clinical toxicologists are not performing well in particular circumstances...

..A cumulative intravenous dose of 2,450 mg/kg of N -acetylcysteine was associated with status epilepticus, intracranial hypertension, and death in a child...

..To compare triage level assignment of the RNs and PEPs to that done by a panel of experts using the same P-CTAS guidelines...

..To systematically review and summarize studies on the accuracy of ECG and tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) concentration as prognostic indicators of the risk of seizures, ventricular arrhythmia (VA) or death in patients with TCA overdose...

..To report a case of medication dispensing error by administration of similarly packaged drugs...

..These results suggest that with appropriate monitoring and intravenous glucose intake in a controlled environment such as a pediatric intensive care unit, ethanol therapy does not carry as many risks as currently believed...

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..The use of a standardized triage tool allows better comparison of the patients; a computerized version could theoretically improve its reliability...