Citation

Aronow R, Done AK. JACEP 1978; 7(2): 56-59.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

628122

Abstract

Emergency physicians should be prepared to treat overdosage from phencyclidine, a common street drug abused throughout North America. A dearth of laboratory resources to establish the diagnosis makes it essential that diagnoses include awareness of symptomatology. A specific therapeutic approach utilizing ion-trapping by continuous gastric suctioning and acidification of urine and/or blood can be used successfully to treat these patients.

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