@article{ref1,
title="Treatment of acute poisoning caused by carbamazepine, digoxin, and acetylsalicylic acid, with repeated doses of activated charcoal",
journal="Gaceta Medica de Mexico",
year="1995",
author="Montoya-Cabrera, M. A. and Escalante-Galindo, P. and Sauceda-García, J. M. and Márquez-Enríquez, L. M. and González-Cabello, H. and Flores-Alvarez, E.",
volume="131",
number="3",
pages="349-354",
abstract="Twelve pediatric patients with acute poisonings caused by carbamazepine, digoxin and acetylsalicylic acid were treated with multiple doses of activated charcoal combined with a saline cathartic (adsorption surface of activated charcoal nearly 950 m2/g). This procedure was effective to shorten the plasmatic levels of the drugs, besides the clinical improvement of the poisoned patients. The average initial and final levels of the drugs were: carbamazepine 21.64 and 0.9 micrograms/ml (lowering 95.81%, p < 0.05), digoxin 5.14 and 1.1 ng/ml (lowering 78.6%, P < 0.05) and acetylsalicylic acid 418.5 and 57.5 micrograms/ml, respectively, (lowering 86.3%, p < 0.05). These results suggest the usefulness of activated charcoal in the clearance of the four overdosed drugs.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0016-3813",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}