An atropine and glycopyrrolate combination reduces mortality in organophosphate poisoning

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 715-720

  Arendse, Regan ^a   Irusen, Elvis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anticholinergics; Atropine; Glycopyrrolate; Mortality; Organophosphate poisoning; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ATROPINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TOXICITY; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTOXICATION; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROTOXICITY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SYMPTOM; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ATROPINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLYCOPYRROLATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POISONING;

EID: 70450212179     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327109350666     Document Type: Article

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