Managing self poisoning: "Gastric lavage is perhaps more important in developing countries"

Authors

Alison L. Jones, National Poisons Information ServiceFollow
Glyn Volans, National Poisons Information Service

RIS ID

62693

Publication Details

Jones, A. L. & Volans, G. (2000). Managing self poisoning: "Gastric lavage is perhaps more important in developing countries". British Medical Journal, 320 (7236), 711-713.

Abstract

In their clinical review of recent advances in the management of self poison­ing, Jones and Volans briefly discuss gastric lavage and state: “many clinical toxicologists rarely use this method now.”1 The impres­sion given could support the abandonment of gastric lavage. This could be particularly deleterious in developing countries.