tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone: a case report"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone: a case report. | Available online http content 9 3 R280 Research Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone a case report David Michael Wood1 Hadi Alsahaf2 Peter Streete3 Paul Ivor Dargan4 and Alison Linda Jones5 Specialist Registrar in General Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology St George s Hospital Medical School London UK 2Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine Kingston Hospital Kingston Surrey UK 3Head of Clinical Forensic Toxicology Section Medical Toxicology Laboratory Guy s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London UK 4Consultant Clinical Toxicologist National Poisons Information Service London Guy s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London UK 5Director and Clinical Toxicologist National Poisons Information Service London Guy s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London UK Corresponding author David Michael Wood dwood@ Received 11 Jan 2005 Revisions requested 14 Feb 2005 Revisions received 29 Mar 2005 Accepted 5 Apr 2005 Published 29 Apr 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 R280-R284 DOI 86 cc3528 This article is online at http content 9 3 R280 2005 Wood et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Rotenone is a pesticide derived from the roots of plants from the Leguminosae family. Poisoning following deliberate ingestion of these plant roots has commonly been reported in Papua New Guinea. However poisoning with commercially available rotenone in humans has been reported only once previously following accidental ingestion in a child. Therefore the optimal management of rotenone poisoning is not known. After deliberate ingestion of up to 200 ml of a commercially available