Current status of antidotal therapies in acute human intoxications.
The purpose of this work is a review of usefulness, indications and handling of some antidotes which are at our disposal for therapeutic use since several years, especially naloxone, flumazenil, Fab fragments of digoxin specific antibodies, hydroxocobalamine, 4-methyl-pyrazole, N-acetylcystein or the new metal chelators. Older clinically relevant substances are also reviewed.
Lheureux
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Emergency Department, Erasme University Hospital, ULB, Brussels.
Even-Adin
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Askenasi
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000931:Antidotes / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D011041:Poisoning / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000931:Antidotes