Supportive Measures in Treatment of Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning

Summary

Aluminum phosphide poisoning (ALP) is a global public health problem, and self-poisoning accounts for one-third of the world's suicide rate. In fact, in some parts of developing countries, pesticide poisoning causes more deaths than infection. ALP is very common in our government and the prognosis of the cases is usually so bad. Toxicity by ALP is caused by the liberation of phosphine gas, which causes cell hypoxia due to inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation leading to circulatory failure.

Timeline

Start

2016-01-01

Primary completion

2016-06-30

Completion

2017-03-14

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.