Atropine Poisoning in Infancy

Atropine poisoning in early infancy due to Eumydrin drops.

Atropine poisoning mimicking septicemia

A young female was admitted in medical emergency room with fever, tachycardia and breathing difficulty. A provisional diagnosis of septicemia was made and empirical antibiotics were started. The patient required intubation and assisted ventilation. The patient recovered within 72 hours completely except bilateral mid-dilated fixed pupils. Atropine was not administered in the hospital. All blood...

An outbreak of atropine poisoning.

FiFTEEN men, all Royal Air Force personnel, varying in age from nineteen to forty-two years, but mainly in the early twenties, were given a period of prolonged narcosis intended to last ten days in each case. They were all in satisfactory physical health but suffered from psychoneuroses. The technique of treatment was a modification of that advocated by Brody (1940) for restless, older patients...

Lead poisoning in infancy.

Lead poisoning in infancy and childhood is a well-recognized and apparently common condition in America. In Holt's 'Diseases of Infancy and Childhood ' (1940) it is stated that 'lead poisoning is one of the common and most serious forms of intoxication recognized in childhood.' Byers and Lord (1943) reviewing the records of the Children's Hospital, Boston, found 128 cases of this condition duri...

High dose atropine in organophosphorus poisoning.