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Ondansetron for treating nausea and vomiting in the poisoned patient
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy
|March 1, 1994
Abstract
Objective:
To describe the efficacy of ondansetron for the treatment of poisoning-associated vomiting in two patients following drug intoxication.
Patients:
Two self-poisoned adolescent patients.
Intervention:
Intravenous ondansetron.
Results:
Resolution of nausea and vomiting in both patients.
Conclusions:
Ondansetron appears to be a very effective antiemetic drug for use in selected intoxicated patients.