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Archives of Epilepsy, 2021 Organophosphate poisoning is a common form of suicide due to the widespread use of pesticides. A twenty-seven-year-old male patient presented with impaired consciousness, recurrent seizures and thick secretions in the mouth.
Aydin Talip YILDOGAN +2 more
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Toxicology Reports, 2023 Background: South Africa is one of the largest importers of pesticides in Africa. Pesticides play an integral role in food security and ensuring economic survival.
Leon Daniel Scheepers +2 more
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Continuous renal replacement therapy increased plasma cholinesterase activity in a case of acute organophosphate poisoning [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2022 Extracorporeal removal of organophosphate from blood has been proposed, but the efficacy of hemodialysis and hemoperfusion has not been established. We report a case of organophosphate poisoning in which continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was ...
In Ho Kwon, Jinwoo Jeong, Yuri Choi
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Prevalence of Organophosphate Poisoning In Batticaloa, Sri Lanka [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2017 Background: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a global problem which has steadily increased over the past few years in developing countries and has become as one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in these countries.
maheswaran umakanth
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Pralidoxime for organophosphate poisoning
The Lancet, 2006 From their randomised trial, Kirti Pawar and colleagues report in today's Lancet on two pralidoxime-dosing schemes in 200 patients who had moderately severe self-poisoning with organophosphorus insecticide.1 After a 2-g loading dose over 30 min, half received a high-dose regimen of 1 g/h pralidoxime iodide for 48 h. The other half received a lower dose:
Eyer, Peter, Buckley, Nicholas
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Organophosphate Poisoning Simulation Case
MedEdPORTAL, 2010 This simulation case is intended for medical students and residents in emergency medicine and involves a patient that was exposed to organophosphates while working on a farm.
Jessica Brooks +2 more
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Intermediate Syndrome Following Organophosphate Poisoning; Review Article [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2019 Background: Organophosphates (OPs) are regularly utilized as pesticides all over the world. Exposures to OPs cause countless cases of poisoning and death annually.
Maheswaran Umakanth
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A rare case of Organophosphate poisoning with toxic encephalopathy
Journal of Integrated Health Sciences, 2016 Organophosphate compounds (OPCs) are used mostly as pesticides. In India, Organophosphate poisoning occurs most commonly due to suicidal ingestion. Depending on the type and the dose of the organophosphate compound exposure some clinical syndromes, such ...
S K Tilara, J V Solanki, P A Bhatt
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Parkinsonism with organophosphate poisoning
BMJ Case Reports, 2009 Parkinsonism is a primary neurotoxic manifestation of organophosphate pesticide intoxication. We report here the case of a 67-year-old man who developed acute parkinsonism with tremors and rigidity following exposure to fenitrothion, an organophosphate pesticide.
Kiyotaka, Nakamagoe +4 more
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International Journal of General Medicine, 2022 Abdullah Yousef,1 Waleed Albuali,1 Mohammed AlOmari,1 Abdullah AlMutairi,1 Hamad W Albuali,2 Faisal O AlQurashi,1 Hassan M Alshaqaq2 1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; 2College of
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