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

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

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 …

Sixty four patients who presented to the emergency department following severe acute
tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose (defined as an antidepressant ingestion associated …

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

In order to determine whether patients at low risk for complications following tricyclic
antidepressant (TCA) overdose can be identified, we analyzed the records of all admissions …

Study objective: To assess interobserver agreement when experienced clinicians measure
QRS-interval duration in tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose. Methods: We studied the …

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

Objectives To describe the changes over time of the QRS interval and terminal 40-msec
QRS frontal axis (T40-ms) in patients with acute tricyclic antidepressant poisoning, to identify …

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