PATIENT TREATED WITH ANTIDOTE KIT AND HYPERBARIC-OXYGEN SURVIVES CYANIDE POISONING

Authors
GOODHART GL
Citation
Gl. Goodhart, PATIENT TREATED WITH ANTIDOTE KIT AND HYPERBARIC-OXYGEN SURVIVES CYANIDE POISONING, Southern medical journal, 87(8), 1994, pp. 814-816
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Southern medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00384348
Volume
87
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
814 - 816
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-4348(1994)87:8<814:PTWAKA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
A 54-year-old man deliberately drank a potassium-gold cyanide solution that contained approximately 1,650 mg of potassium cyanide. He surviv ed after treatment with the Lilly antidote kit and hyperbaric oxygen.