Open AccessClinical profile and management of poisoning with suicide tree: An observational study
Author(s) -
Mani Me,
Prasantha Kumar,
C V Jayachandran
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/1995-705x.201783
Subject(s) - medicine , bradycardia , vomiting , observational study , sinus bradycardia , nausea , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , blood pressure , heart rate
The clinical features, management, and the associations of dosage in poisoning with the cardiotoxic plant Cerbera odollam (suicide tree), responsible for more than half of plant poisoning deaths in the South Indian State of Kerala alone, have not been evaluated. There are only few studies on its clinical features and none on the usage of cardiac pacing in its management, given its rarity in the Western world. We depend on data for similar toxins to form our management protocols.