Responding to pediatric poisoning

Nursing. 2008 Aug;38(8):52-5. doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000327496.01064.a9.

Abstract

Make sure you know how to act quickly if a child ingests a toxic substance and what to teach parents to prevent accidental poisonings.

MeSH terms

  • Accidents
  • Adolescent
  • Charcoal / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Emergency Nursing / methods*
  • Emetics / therapeutic use
  • Gastric Lavage
  • Hotlines
  • Humans
  • Ipecac / therapeutic use
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nursing Assessment
  • Parents / education
  • Pediatric Nursing / methods*
  • Poison Control Centers
  • Poisoning / diagnosis
  • Poisoning / etiology
  • Poisoning / therapy*
  • Resuscitation
  • Risk Factors
  • Safety Management / methods*
  • Suicide, Attempted

Substances

  • Emetics
  • Charcoal
  • Ipecac