Intramuscular ophthalmic homatropine vs. atropine to prevent lethality in rates with dichlorvos poisoning

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...

Amitraz Poisoning Treated Successfully with Atropine.

Very few cases have been reported with Amitraz as a suicidal agent from India. Here we present such a case treated successfully with atropine sulphate.

Status of cyclopentolate as a cycloplegic in children: a comparison with atropine and homatropine.

We compared the cycloplegic effects of cyclopentolate, homatropine and atropine by the retinoscopy findings and residual accommodation left following their use in the same individual. The mean residual accommodation measured after the use of cyclopentolate, homatropine and atropine was 1.48 +/- 0.33 D, 2.32 +/- 0.37 D and 1.10 D +/- 0.28 D, respectively, and the mean difference in retinoscopy r...

An outbreak of atropine poisoning.

FiFTEEN men, all Royal Air Force personnel, varying in age from nineteen to forty-two years, but mainly in the early twenties, were given a period of prolonged narcosis intended to last ten days in each case. They were all in satisfactory physical health but suffered from psychoneuroses. The technique of treatment was a modification of that advocated by Brody (1940) for restless, older patients...

High dose atropine in organophosphorus poisoning.