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Pesticide Poisoning

Date Last Search Run: Jan 14, 2025
Table last updated: Apr 22, 2023
Data last added: Apr 22, 2023

Recommendation RECOMMENDATION FOR INTERVENTION
STRENGTH OF EVIDENCE FOR INTERVENTION   SUPPORTIVE (Green) NEUTRAL (Yellow) AGAINST (Red) NOT YET GRADED (White)
1 (strong evidence exists)        
2 (fair evidence exists)      
3 (weak evidence exists)    


Interventions

Atropine
Level Direction Primary Outcome Patient/Process Setting Reference
III Supportive (Green) Reduction of symptoms Patient ED-Paramedic & MD Ibrahim AE, Ghantarchyan H, Le T, Bhagat A, Maknouni B, Arabian S. A Rare Presentation of Severe Organophosphate Poisoning: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Cureus Nov 2022; 14(11):e31497. Medline
III Supportive (Green) Patient survival Patient PH-Paramedic Schrickel JW., Lewalter T., Luderitz B., Nickenig G., Klehr HU., Rabe C. Recovery from ultra-high dose organophosphate poisoning after "in-the-field" antidote treatment: Potential lessons for civil defense. J Emerg Med 2009; 37(3):279-282. Medline
III Neutral (Yellow) Mortality Patient ED-MD Finkelstein Y., Kushnir A., Raikhlin-Eisenkraft B., Taitelman U. Antidotal therapy of severe acute organophosphate poisoning: A multihospital study. Neurotoxicol Teratol 1989; 11(6):593-6. Medline
III Neutral (Yellow) Clinical effect Patient ED-MD Perlik-Gattner I., Kostrzewa A. Acute, severe cholinesterase inhibitors poisonings in the material of occupational diseases and toxicology ward in poznan. Przegl Lek 1997; 54(10):756-8. Medline


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