Toxic Events

Question 1

What are the causes, symptoms, and treatment of Muscarinic cholinergic toxicity?

Answer 1

Blind as a bat, mad as a hatter (salivation), red as a beet, hot as a hare, dry as a bone, the bowel and bladder lose their tone, and the heart runs alone (reflex tachycardia)

• muschrooms
• treatment with atropine

Question 2

Causes, symtoms and treatment of nicotinic choinergic toxicity?

Answer 2

• Ingestion of cigarettes and pesticides
• CNS over-excitation
• Antiepileptic drugs and Atropine

Question 3

Choinesterase Inhibitor poisoning causes, symptoms and treatments?

Answer 3

• Exposure to organophosphate pesticides
• Muscarinic toxicity followed by nictotinic toxicity
• large atropine doses and pralidoxamine