ATROPINE IRRITATION

Comparison of inhaled atropine sulphate and atropine methonitrate.

The bronchodilator potencies of inhaled atropine sulphate and atropine methonitrate have been compared either alone or in combination with fenoterol in a group of adult asthmatic patients. A cumulative dose response study showed that 2 mg of atropine sulphate produced near maximum bronchodilatation. A larger dose of 4 mg was used in comparing the potency of this drug with 2 mg of atropine metho...

Skin irritation and corrosion.

Atropine in Cholera

atropine in cholera and he recommended its routine use from the earliest stages of the disease. In the acute condition we have to consider three classes of patients (1) those who improve without the use of atropine, (2) those who show improvement from the administration of atropine, (3) those who get worse in spite of atropine. Hence the point is to select the cases that would be benefited by a...

Atropine in Strangulated Hernia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The following case may interest some of your readers. H. B., a Mohammedan male, aged about 60 years, Was brought to this hospital with a strangulated inguinal hernia of the left side at 7-30 p.m. on the 10th June, 1934. The duration of this condition was about five hours; the patient was in severe pain; his temperature was normal and pulse 68 per m...

Atropine poisoning mimicking septicemia

A young female was admitted in medical emergency room with fever, tachycardia and breathing difficulty. A provisional diagnosis of septicemia was made and empirical antibiotics were started. The patient required intubation and assisted ventilation. The patient recovered within 72 hours completely except bilateral mid-dilated fixed pupils. Atropine was not administered in the hospital. All blood...