Water intoxication associated with oxytocin infusion.

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  • A J Ahmad
  • E H Clark
  • H S Jacobs
چکیده

with evidence of the self-inflicted nature of their lesions and, when suspected, usually reject offers of psychiatric assistance and discharge themselves. There is no easy way of helping them and there are normally insufficient grounds for compulsory admission to psychiatric hospitals. However, they can at least be protected from the results of their own behaviour by dissemination of information about them among doctors and hospitals.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Postgraduate medical journal

دوره 51 594  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1975