Subcutaneous injection: learning from experience in other specialties
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Death from paraquat after subcutaneous injection.
Gramoxone is a commercial formulation of a herbicide containing the di-metho sulphate salt of paraquat (1,1'-dimethyl-4, 4'-dipyridilium). Bullivant (1966) reported that up to July 1964 one case of paraquat poisoning had occurred in a child in Ireland. He described two additional cases in men in 1966. The first was that of a 28-year-old man who drank half a glass of 20% paraquat solution; a day...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Haemophilia Practice
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2055-3390
DOI: 10.17225/jhp00111