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Caustic intoxication
B Le Bon1, P Dechamps, M Ectors
1Unité de Réanimation Médicale Hôpital Universitaire Saint-Pierre, Bruxelles.
Acta Clinica Belgica. Supplementum
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
After a retrospective study of 17 cases of caustic intoxication in the intensive care unit, the epidemiologic, pathophysiologic, clinic and therapeutic aspects are reviewed. The following procedure is suggested: early endoscopies, abstention of any gastric lavage, corticosteroids and empiric antibiotic therapy and the most early possible introduction of a parenteral nutrition.