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    Optimal body position in oral poisoning cases

    Report by: Emmy De Buck, Staff member Expertise Center

    Search checked by: Stijn Van de Velde, Staff member Expertise Center

    Institution: Belgian Red Cross, Flanders, Belgium

    Three-part question

    In [orally poisoned patients] does [a specific body position] result in [a better outcome for the patient]?

    Clinical scenario

    A 30-year-old woman had swallowed an overdose of pills. Her husband asks you what he could have done to help his wife while waiting for the emergency medical services to arrive. …

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    Footnotes

    • Linked articles 104927, 104935, 104943, 104901.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

    Linked Articles

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      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 952-952 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104901
    • Best Evidence Topic reports
      BET 2
      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 953-953 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104927
    • Best evidence topic reports
      BET 3
      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 953-954 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104935
    • Best Evidence Topic reports
      BET 4
      BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
      Emergency Medicine Journal 2010; 27 954-955 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2010. doi: 10.1136/emj.2010.104943