Acute organophosphate poisoning in university hospital emergency room patients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 965-969

  Yurumez, Yusuf ^a   Durukan, Polat ^b   Yavuz, Yucel ^a   Ikizceli, Ibrahim ^b   Avsarogullari, Levent ^b   Ozkan, Seda ^b   Akdur, Okhan ^b   Ozdemir, Caglar ^b  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emergency; Medicine; Organophosphates; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DICHLORVOS; DIMPYLATE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARATHION METHYL; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BRADYCARDIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY CARE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTOXICATION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIOSIS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; PATIENT INFORMATION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUICIDE; TACHYCARDIA; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34547921254     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6304     Document Type: Article

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