[Fatal poisoning with insecticide E 605 forte].

[Fatal acute poisoning with insecticide systox (E 1059 Bayer)].

Case study: fatal poisoning by malathion.

A case involving a fatal poisoning (suicide) by the insecticide malathion is described. The intact insecticide was found in the post-mortem blood and gastric contents at concentrations of 1.8 and 978 micrograms/ml, respectively. None of the insecticide was found in the autopsied liver tissue. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques were used for the identification and quantifica...

Acute poisoning--a review of 1900 cases.

A review of nineteen hundred cases of acute poisoning admitted to the Intensive Care Unit shows that poisoning was responsible for 40% of the emergencies treated at this Unit, between 15th January, 1976 to 15th November, 1985. Comparing our data with Western figures, it was noted that the pattern of poisoning in our Country is considerably different from that in the West. Organophosphorus insec...

Outcome of Patients with Cholinergic Insecticide Poisoning Treated with Gastric Lavage: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Background: Gastric lavage (GL) is one of the most commonly used decontamination method for cholinergic insecticide ingestion in developing countries despite lack of supporting evidence. This study was designed to evaluate the outcome of patients with cholinergic insecticide poisoning treated with GL in regards to timing and frequency of the procedure. Methods: In this prospective observational...

Pattern of poisoning in a developing agricultural country.

Four hundred and seventy-two cases of poisoning were seen over a two-year period in Kandy, Ceylon. The overall mortality was 23 7 %. The pattern of poisoning was different from that in western countries in that 49 8 % of the cases weie due to insecticide poisoning and only 10 7 % were due to drugs, including barbiturates. Insecticides accounted for 73.2% and drugs for only 4 5% of the 112 fatal...