Study to Know the Efficacy of Higher Doses of Pralidoxime in Patients of Organophpsphorus Poisoning.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2003-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether high doses of pralidoxime(PAM) are effective as compare to lower doses of PAM in the management of moderately sever organophosphorus poisoning patients.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Giriraj Hospital
• Treatments: Pralidoxime

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

-patients with a history of poisoning by an organophosphorus pesticide and clinical features of poisoning.

Exclusion Criteria:

patients who

• were under 12 years

• had chronic disease

• had malignancy

• were pregnant,

• presented more than 24 hrs post-ingestion,

• who could not be resuscitated successfully in the emergency room of our ospital