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From: Prasanna Simha M <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:06:59 +0530 To: International Critical Care Medicine Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CCM-L] Fwd: [EMED-L] Poison from suicide attempt shuts down Florida emer... Reply-To: International Critical Care Medicine Group <[email protected]> Wussies -- you need to come to Bangalore Medical college emergency wards in the main two attached hospitals. I was in one during internship and we used to receive at least 12-20 cases of OP poisoining at night between 7-9PM.(Typically after work (5 PM) husband gets his daily wage drinks and then comes home to infuriated wife who quarrels and one of them consumes OP in a fit of anger and then is shifted to us peri *PM which sued to also be shift change time !!) bangalore for years was the suicide capital of the world and we had an OP ward" to house organophosphorous poisoning patients and since we were inundated simple rule wa sto keep patients "Mad as a Hatter" to ensure none of them would slip into cholinergic death !!. Prasanna On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > no. at that time even pseudocholinesterase levels were difficult to obtain > (the specimen had to go to the state lab). I did have (as noted) > significant skin exposure when the patient vomited on me before we realized > what he had ingested and started taking some precautions. I was also the > only one 'showered' by the patient at that time. > > What causes me to consider that I might have been exposed was that I have > not had as bad a case of 'flu since that time (and that was the worst case > I suffered from since about 1968)....even in years where I didn't get a flu > shot. > > ck > > In a message dated 04/02/12 01:33:03 Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Did you measure your cholinesterase levels? I suspect your symptoms were > just due to the 'flu, unless you actually ingested some of the poison > orally. > > Ian > > On 2/04/12 4:13 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I got lucky....I had what was probably a borderline exposure from > treating the patient, but since I was already coming down with the flu, no > one (even me or my attending, both with previous Chem/Bio training through > the Army) recognized that at least part of my aches, pains, runny nose and > shivers were secondary to exposure. > > That patient took up about every milligram of Atropine in the city that > night....we were down to cracking 0.4 mg ampoules to keep him going. > > ck > > In a message dated 04/01/12 20:44:43 Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > The secondary contamination aspect of these vases is I think under > reported. My indoctrination was with a rose dust OP based pesticide when I > was still a JR FF in NJ. Got 4 of the 6 of us Respondersafety sick. Nine > needed treatment > > Louis N. Molino, Sr. CET FF/NREMT-B/FSI/EMSI Training Program Manager , > Fire & Safety Specialists, Inc. (979) 690-7559 (Office) (979) 690-7562 > (Office FAX) (979) 412-0890 (Cell) Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on > AT&T. Please forgive any typos. > > [email protected] wrote: > > >had a case of that when I was an Intern back in 1988. > > > >ck > > > > > >In a message dated 04/01/12 19:03:32 Central Daylight Time, > >[email protected] writes: > > > >Thought you guys might get a kick out of this- not something you see > >everyday… > > > >James M. Wilson V, M.D. > >Delta Pediatrics > >Delta County Memorial Hospital > >-and- > >Chief of Station > >Black Canyon Infectious Disease Forecast Station #1 > > > > > > > > > > > >Begin forwarded message: > > > > > >From: Mark <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > >><[email protected]_(mailto:[email protected])> > > > >Date: April 1, 2012 5:51:48 PM MDT > > > >To: [email protected]_ > >(mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>) > > > > >Subject: [EMED-L] Poison from suicide attempt shuts down Florida > >emergency room, sickens paramedics > > > >Reply-To: "EMED-L -- a list for Emergency Medicine practitioners." > ><[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > >><[email protected]_(mailto:[email protected])> > > > > > > > >_ > http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/01/poison-from-suicide-attempt-shuts-down > >-florida-emergency-room-sickens/?test=latestnews_ > >( > http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/01/poison-from-suicide-attempt-shuts-down-florida-emergency-room-si > >ckens/?test=latestnews) > > > > > >____________________________________ > > > >Use this link to _unsubscribe_ > >(http://listsrv.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=EMED-L&A=1) from this > mailing list. > > > > > > > > > >= > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CCM-L mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CCM-L mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > _______________________________________________ > CCM-L mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > > > _______________________________________________ > CCM-L mailing > [email protected]https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > > > -- > Dr Ian Seppelt FANZCA FCICM > Senior Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine > Nepean Hospital, Penrith NSW > Sydney Medical School - Nepean, University of Sydney > > > > _______________________________________________ > CCM-L mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > > > _______________________________________________ > CCM-L mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l > > _______________________________________________ CCM-L mailing list [email protected] https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccm-l ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
