Mortality rate and pattern following carbamate methomyl poisoning. Comparison with organophosphate poisoning of comparable toxicity

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 828-833

  Lee, Byung Kook ^a   Jeung, Kyung Woon ^a   Lee, Hyoung Youn ^a   Jung, Yong Hun ^b  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b 1339 Emergency Medical Information Center ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Heart; Respiratory support

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENYL PHENYLPHOSPHONOTHIOATE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ATROPINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DICHLORVOS; LACTIC ACID; METHIDATHION; METHOMYL; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; OXYGEN; PARATHION; PHOSPHAMIDON; TROPONIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BLOOD PH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; METHOMYL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PNEUMONIA; POISONING; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 81255201089     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2011.617309     Document Type: Article

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