Epidemiology of acute organophosphate poisoning in hospital emergency room patients

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-232

  Dharmani, Chandrabhan ^a   Jaga, Kushik ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BRADYCARDIA; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FASCICULATION; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; MIOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; POLYNEUROPATHY; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SALIVATION; SUICIDE; SWEATING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 27844578263     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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