[Extrarenal purification in severe salicylate poisoning in adults]

About a new case of severe salicylate intoxication, the authors wanted to confirm the advantages of extrarenal epuration in some circumstances. Besides of usual treatments, it decreases the severity of this intoxication and the delay in its treatment by reducing quickly blood salicylate level to a moderate or benign rate whose prognosis is really better. Of course, the choice among the most common treatments (hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, peritoneal dialysis) depends with technical disposals, but hemodialysis seems the most efficient with minor risks than the intoxication itself.