Fomepizole in the treatment of acute methanol poisonings: Experience from the Czech mass methanol outbreak 2012-2013
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Czech mass methanol outbreak 2012: epidemiology, challenges and clinical features.
OBJECTIVES Methanol poisonings occur frequently globally, but reports of larger outbreaks where complete clinical and laboratory data are reported remain scarce. The objective of the present study was to report the data from the mass methanol poisoning in the Czech Republic in 2012 addressing the general epidemiology, treatment, and outcomes, and to present a protocol for the use of fomepizole ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Papers
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1213-8118,1804-7521
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2014.056