منابع مشابه
Hydroxocobalamin for poisoning caused by ingestion of potassium cyanide: a case study.
Hydroxocobalamin, a precursor of vitamin B12, has a history of use in the prehospital setting in France for cyanide poisoning, particularly that associated with smoke inhalation. Because cyanide poisoning by ingestion is less common than smoke inhalation-associated cyanide poisoning, less information is available on prehospital use of hydroxocobalamin to treat cyanide poisoning by ingestion. Th...
متن کاملThe treatment of cyanide poisoning.
Cyanide has gained historical notoriety as a poison used with intent to cause fatality. Its occurrence in industry is confined to a small number of uses in a relatively narrow range of industries, including the manufacture of Perspex and nylon and in electroplating. With proper controls in these settings, episodes of poisoning are extremely rare. However, because of the potential for a fatal ou...
متن کاملCyanide poisoning and its treatment.
Cyanide is both widely available and easily accessible throughout the world. Although the compound is not frequently encountered, it has been used as a poison and contaminant in the past and is a potential terrorist agent. Cyanide has the ability to cause significant social disruption and demands special attention to public health preparedness. It can be obtained from a variety of sources, incl...
متن کاملHydroxocobalamin for severe acute cyanide poisoning by ingestion or inhalation.
This chart review was undertaken to assess efficacy and safety of hydroxocobalamin for acute cyanide poisoning. Hospital records of the Fernand Widal and Lariboisière Hospitals were reviewed for intensive care unit admissions with cyanide poisoning for which hydroxocobalamin was used as first-line treatment from 1988 to 2003. Smoke inhalation cases were excluded. Hydroxocobalamin (5-20 g) was a...
متن کاملRe: The treatment of cyanide poisoning.
(CWP) in the USA over the last 30 years. They then state, ‘Similar trends have been noted in Europe’. We would like to expand on this statement in respect of our experience here in the UK. In the UK coal mining industry, health surveillance (by chest X-ray) has been provided, over the last four decades, initially at 5 year, and since 1974, 4 year intervals. The prevalence of CWP among employed ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 1860
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-186001000-00079