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POISONING DUE TO SODIUM FLUOROACETATE (“1080”)
Author(s) -
McTaggart Donald Raymond
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb50243.x
Subject(s) - fluoroacetate , status epilepticus , medicine , ingestion , anesthesia , intensive care medicine , epilepsy , chemistry , psychiatry , biochemistry
A boy, aged eight years, was admitted to hospital in status epilepticus following ingestion of sodium fluoroacetate (“1080”). Subsequently, he was resuscitated from cardiac arrest, but was left with severe neurological impairment. This widely‐used agricultural poison is cardiotoxic and neurotoxic, and stringent precautions exist to control its use.