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Pediatric Drug Therapy Part 3

Chronic salicylism have an insidious presentation, and patients can show marked toxicity at significantly lower salicylate levels than in acute toxicity. Of the following, the MOST appropriate primary mode of therapy In chronic salicylism iS

ExplanationUrinary alkalinization enhances the elimination of salicylates by converting salicylate to its ionized form, "trapping it in the renal tubules, and thus enhancing elimination.