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A hospital-based cross-sectional study on suicidal poisoning in Western Uttar Pradesh

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background and Aims: Poisoning is most common method of committing suicide in India. Objectives of this study to assess prevalence of suicidal poisoning among all poisoning cases, its socio-demographic profile and its reasons in all admitted cases of ...
Narendra Singh Patel   +5 more
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Evaluation of related factors in pulmonary edema and aspiration pneumonia among rice tablet poisonings [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه ابن سینا, 2014
Background: Aluminum phosphide or rice tablet is a solid disinfectant that globally used to protect cereal crops from insects and rodents. However in recent years, due to its easy accessibility the youth used it for suicide.
AF Fayaz
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Aluminum phosphide poisoning [PDF]

open access: yesIndian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2009
Sharma, Vishal, Sharma, Alka
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Molecular and biochemical evidence on the protection of cardiomyocytes from phosphine-induced oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis by acetyl-l-carnitine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of acetyl-l-carnitine (ALCAR) on pathologic changes of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity, ATP production, oxidative stress, and cellular apoptosis/necrosis induced by aluminum phosphide (
Abdolghaffari, A.H.   +9 more
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Intravascular Hemolysis in Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning

open access: yesIndian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2019
Hemolysis associated with aluminum phosphide poisoning is very rare. Intravascular hemolysis in presence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency has been reported rarely in literature. We are reporting a case of young male patient with history of aluminum phosphide poisoning and complicated with intravascular hemolysis without G6PD ...
Katyayani Dutt   +3 more
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Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: A Rare Presentation [PDF]

open access: yesIndian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2018
Aluminum phosphide (ALP) is extremely lethal and invariably suicidal in nature.1 It is a major cause of suicidal poisoning in many countries.2, 3 Toxicity by ALP is caused by the liberation of phosphine gas, which causes cell hypoxia due to inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation leading to circulatory failure.3 Treatment of ALP toxicity is mainly ...
M.G. Raj Kumar   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Accidental phosphine gas poisoning with fatal myocardial dysfunction in two families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Aluminum phosphide is commonly used as a rodenticide and insecticide and is one of the most fatal poisons. The active ingredient is Phosphine gas which inhibits cytochrome oxidase and cellular oxygen utilization.
Akhtar, Saleem   +3 more
core   +1 more source

EPA's Safety Measures for Aluminum and Magnesium Phosphide Fumigants

open access: yesEDIS, 2010
PI228, a 2-page illustrated fact sheet by F.M. Fishel, outlines new EPA restrictions on aluminum and magnesium phosphide products used to control burrowing rodents. Includes additional sources of information.
Frederick M. Fishel
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Frequency of Poisoning Leading to Hospitalization in the Intensive Care Units in Northeastern Iran, 2008-2018

open access: yesJournal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery, 2021
Background: Poisoning is a common cause of hospitalization in intensive care units (ICU). The present study aimed to investigate   the frequency of poisoning leading to hospitalization in the intensive care units of an educational hospital, Golestan ...
Mohammad Shokrzadeh   +9 more
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Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning: Two Pediatric Patients and Two Different Clinical Outcomes

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2017
Aluminium phosphide is an insecticide that turns into a quite toxic gas called phosphine when contacts with gastric fluids. Aluminium phosphide poisoning causes severe metabolic acidosis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ failure with ...
Faruk Ekinci   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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