28Feb 2017

PARAQUAT INTOXICATION: A FATAL POISIONING, CASE REPORT & LITERATURE REVIEW.

  • Emergency Medicine Resident,Dept of Emergency Medicine.
  • Junior Consultant ,Dept of Emergency Medicine,AMRI Hospital.
  • Consultant Dept of Emergency Medicine, AMRI Hospitals, Khandagiri, Odisha, India.
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Paraquat is among the most dangerous poison in medical field,It causes rapid irreversible damage of lungs and lead to renal failure and liver failure causing to death.It is highly toxic compound for humans with very high mortality due to lack of antidote available. We report a case of a 17 yrs old female, who has ingested a 5ml of paraquat (1, 1′-dimethyl-4, 4′-dipyridylium) which is used as a herbicide and easily available substance in a developing countries like India. Despite it?s widely availability in India, its poisoning is uncommon and diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history and lack of definitive laboratory investigations. Sometimes despite of early diagnosis we may not able to save the victim as in our case because of lack of any effective treatment.


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[Imran Khan, Debasis Mishra and Sajid Nomani. (2017); PARAQUAT INTOXICATION: A FATAL POISIONING, CASE REPORT & LITERATURE REVIEW. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 2407-2412] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Dr.Sajid Nomani
Consultant,Dept.of Emergency Medicine

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3424      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3424