Background and Objective: The poisoning severity score is a standardized and generally applicable scheme for grading the severity of poisoning. It allows a qualitative evaluation of morbidity and facilitates comparability of data. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2017/25943
Background and Objective: The symptoms of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are nonspecific; symptoms can mimic those of other common diseases such as nonspecific viral illness, flu- like syndrome and hypertensive attack. Elevated blood carboxy-hemoglobin (COHb) measurements are use...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26047
Background and Objective: Cardiovascular sequelae of Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning may be clinically occult and remains undiagnosed due to lack of overt symptoms as acute chest pain and ischemic changes in the ECG. The advent of more sensitive and specific markers capable of det...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25824
Background: Food poisoning, household poisoning, and cosmetic poisoning are becoming a very important health problem both worldwide and locally at the level of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The aims of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude and practice about the stora...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2016/23115