A Simple Plan for the Management of Drug Overdosage

Open Access

1 November 1974

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Vol. 2 (4) , 288-302
https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057x7400200402

Abstract

Using a purely supportive regime of management a survival rate of 99·6 per cent has been obtained in 1,166 patients admitted to hospital as a result of drug overdosage. Based on this experience, the principles of treatment are discussed.

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