RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gut decontamination of acutely poisoned patients: what do doctors really know about it?
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 774
OP 775
DO 10.1136/emj.2007.049544
VO 24
IS 11
A1 David Michael Wood
A1 Shaun L Greene
A1 Alison Linda Jones
A1 Paul Ivor Dargan
YR 2007
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/11/774.abstract
AB There are consensus guidelines on the appropriate use of gut decontamination in the management of poisoned patients. This study demonstrates that few doctors have read these guidelines and that they have poor knowledge of the use of gut decontamination, which can be improved with specific clinical toxicology teaching. Future guidelines should be published in journals more widely read by those doctors treating poisoned patients.