Pesticide poisoning

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 182-191

  Goel, Ashish ^a   Aggarwal, Praveen ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE; ASCORBIC ACID; ATROPINE; CARBOCISTEINE; CLONIDINE; COLESTYRAMINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; FLUORIDE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; OBIDOXIME; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; PHYTOMENADIONE; PRALIDOXIME; PYRETHROID; THALLIUM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN B GROUP; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HERBICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALOPECIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONVULSION; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATALITY; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TOXICITY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PARAQUAT POISONING; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; ACUTE DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARBAMATES; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 38649085051     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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