Abstract Both the Biosite Triage (Biosite Diagnostics, San Diego, CA) method and the Du
Pont aca (Du Pont Company, Wilmington, DE) method give qualitative tricyclic …

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose is a common, potentially life-threatening finding in
patients seen in emergency departments. There is a need to rapidly differentiate the TCA …

Patients taking tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) can experience toxicity or severe side effects.
As a rapid and less technically demanding alternative to quantitative serum analysis, most …

Electrocardiographic changes and quantitative plasma drug levels associated with cyclic
antidepressant (TCA) overdose have been the subject of many reports in the medical …

Several investigators have recently developed guidelines for determining which patients
with tricyclic antidepressant overdose should be hospitalized. The width of the QRS complex …

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) poisoning has been reported to cause a right-axis deviation
of 130° to 270° in the terminal 40-ms frontal plane QRS axis (T40-ms axis) of the ECG. This …

The tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) agents are recognized for their potentially lethal
cardiovascular and neurological effects in poisoned patients. The 12-lead electrocardiogram …

Emergency department treatment and disposition of tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)-overdose
patients remains a common and difficult problem. Various clinical findings have been …

The EMIT® st assay for tricyclic antidepressant drugs (TADs) was evaluated for use as a
screening technique in the detection of these drugs in serum or plasma. The qualitative …

There is controversy regarding the appropriate utilization of health care resources in the
management of tricyclic antidepressant overdosage. Antidepressant overdose patients …