Citation

Gaytán Becerril A, Franco Muñoz PA, Rivera Hidalgo P, Gueda Baca S. Bol. Med. Hosp. Infant. Mex. 1978; 35(1): 1-12.

Vernacular Title

Intoxicacion por salicilatos. Determinacion de la fraccion libre por metodo de

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Instituto Nacional de Salud)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23132

Abstract

Seventeen infants under one year of age admitted to the Emergency Service of the General Hospital of the Medical Center La Raza during the year 1976 were included in this study with the diagnosis of salicylate poisoning. Determination of plasma salicylate by the ultrafiltrate method was practiced to all patients. A direct relationship between total plasmatic salicylate and its free fraction was found together with an inverse proportion between percentage of total free--salicylate and plasma pH and a lineal correlation between plasma free--salicylate and salicylate obtained in spinal fluid. It is concluded that determination of the free fraction of plasma salicylate is an easy diagnostic method for the better evaluation of salicylate acid poisoning in the infant.

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