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Paraquat Poisoning: What the Acute Care Physician Needs to Know?

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2011
Background: Paraquat poisoning is one of the most common lethal poisonings in Isfahan, the central province of Iran. Due to the lower price and widespread usage of this potent herbicide for agricultural purposes, this kind of intoxication occurs almost ...
Nastaran Eizadi-Mood, Ali Mohammad Sabzghabaee, Shirinalsadat Badri   +2 more
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Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Severe Acute Adult Poisonings in French Amazonia: Urgent Need for a Toxicovigilance Monitoring Framework

Toxics
Background: Acute poisonings (AP) are a significant public health problem, accounting for a high number of emergency department visits and thousands of deaths worldwide. This study aimed to assess the epidemiology of AP in an adult population admitted to
Jean Marc Pujo, Yann Simon, Guy Roger Lontsi Ngoulla, Boubacar Signaté, Rémi Mutricy, Alexis Frémery, Antoine Burin, Bertrand de Toffol, Ibtissem Ben Amara, Stephanie Houcke, Amina Nasri, Dabor Resiere, Hatem Kallel   +12 more
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Rapid onset pulmonary fibrosis due to paraquat poisoning

, 2014
Grammaxone (paraquat) is trade name for N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′bipyridinium dichloride. It is most widely used as herbicide. It came into disrepute because of accidental or intentional ingestion leading to a high mortality.
Govind S Shiddapur, Kapil Borawake, Harshad Patil, Jagannath Dhadwad   +3 more
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An Overview of Paraquat Poisoning: A Review

Poisoning by pesticides is the major public health problem in low-income and middle-income countries, and it is responsible for almost 20% of global suicides in the last decade. Paraquat (PQ) is a toxic bipyridyl compound commonly used in agriculture and
Uddalak Chakraborty, Arkaketan Chatterjee, Mariam Ansar, Sugata Dasgupta, Atanu Chandra   +4 more
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The Herbicide Crisis: Addressing the High Fatality of Paraquat Poisoning. [PDF]

Indian J Crit Care Med
Paul G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Paraquat poisoning in a child

, 1976
The evolution of paraquat poisoning in a 6 year old boy is described. It was relatively favourable since the patient survived whereas the majority of victims die within twenty days after ingestion of this herbicide.
Janssen, Françoise, Dubois, Jean Marc J., Baran, Dana   +2 more
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Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Position Statement on the Management of Paraquat Poisoning. [PDF]

Indian J Crit Care Med
Gautam PL, Takkellapati LR, Bhalla A, Peter JV, Mahajan RK, Krishna MR, Dharanindra M, Sinha S, Singh YP, Anand P, Kola VR, Chattopadhyay R, Mégarbane B, Chowdhury FR, Ayyan SM, Alhatali BA, Mahajan R, Goyal A, Garg SK, Hazarika K, Routray PK, Kumar P, Gupta S, Jagiasi BG, Ramakrishnan N, Samavedam S, Tyagi R.   +26 more
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Favorable outcome in paraquat poisoning with acute kidney injury in a resource-limited setting: a case report. [PDF]

Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Shah UK, Koirala AS, Hathi K, Pandey PP, Shrestha K, Pahari N, Joshi J.   +6 more
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Acute Poisoning in Adults Admitted in Ardabil Imam Khomeini Hospital [PDF]

Background & Objectives: Poisoning is one of the most common causes that referred to the Emergence and one of the most important Medicine immediacy. Correct and immediate diagnosis and accommodative treatment can be life saving.
قربان زاده, علی, میرزا رحیمی, مهرداد, صیاد رضایی, ایرج, مصطفی زاده, بابک, امانی, فیروز, صادقیه اهری, سعید, فرزانه, اسماعیل   +6 more
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Paraquat Poisoning: A Case Series. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Khadka R, Shrestha A, Shrestha H, Kafle P, Pandit A, Neupane M, Prasai P, Awasthi RR.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source