A Simple Plan for the Management of Drug Overdosage

Abstract

Using a purely supportive regime of management a survival rate of 99•6 per cent has been obtained in 1,166 patients admitted to hospital as a result of drug overdosage. Based on this experience, the principles of treatment are discussed.

Correspondence

“…On the use of BAL a therapy suggested by Dr. Wright (1974)ar:d Dr's. Benson and Boleyn (1974) as a specific antidote to paracetamol overdosage; this has been previously offered as a form of therapy by Prescott and Matthew (1974).…”