Open AccessPredictive factors of treatment outcomes for hospital care in children with acute methadone poisoning
Author(s) -
Yasamin Atighi,
Nastaran EizadiMood,
Marjan Mansourian,
Amin Zamani,
Ali Saffaei,
Ali Mohammad Sabzghabaee
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of research in pharmacy practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-9644
pISSN - 2279-042X
DOI - 10.4103/jrpp.jrpp_16_141
Subject(s) - medicine , methadone , pediatrics , medical record , referral , accidental , complication , addiction , emergency medicine , cohort , psychiatry , surgery , family medicine , physics , acoustics
The trend of methadone toxicity in children and adolescents seems to be increasing in Iran since it is used as a legal measure of the treatment for opioids addiction in methadone maintenance therapy clinics. In the present study, we describe the clinical and demographical characteristics of acute methadone toxicity in a cohort of pediatric poisoned patients in Isfahan, Iran and discussed the predictive factors for their treatment outcomes.