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Zinc Phosphide Poisoning

Author(s) -

Erdal Doğan,

Abdulmenap Güzel,

Taner Çiftçi,

İlker Öngüç Aycan,

Feyzi Çelik,

Bedri Çetin,

Gönül Ölmez Kavak

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

case reports in critical care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6439

pISSN - 2090-6420

DOI - 10.1155/2014/589712

Subject(s) - rodenticide , medicine , phosphine , shock (circulatory) , cardiogenic shock , ingestion , anesthesia , heart failure , stomach , circulatory system , intensive care medicine , surgery , toxicology , biochemistry , biology , catalysis , chemistry , myocardial infarction

Zinc phosphide has been used widely as a rodenticide. Upon ingestion, it gets converted to phosphine gas in the body, which is subsequently absorbed into the bloodstream through the stomach and the intestines and gets captured by the liver and the lungs. Phosphine gas produces various metabolic and nonmetabolic toxic effects. Clinical symptoms are circulatory collapse, hypotension, shock symptoms, myocarditis, pericarditis, acute pulmonary edema, and congestive heart failure. In this case presentation, we aim to present the intensive care process and treatment resistance of a patient who ingested zinc phosphide for suicide purposes.

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