Nitritoid Crises after Intravenous Injections

u minute3 in spite of my best efforts to rescue him. This was the first urea stibamine injection which the patient had received, and death might possibly have been due to over-sensitiveness (opinion of Dr. S. K. Sen, Civil Surgeon, Purnea). It will not be out of place to mention here that during the course of more than 20 years of hospital practice I have given not less than 20 to 30 thousand intravenous injections and I had seen many cases even with severe reactions but none .ending fatally. Another case of intravenous antivenom injection showed similar symptoms particularly cyanosis. It was an advanced case of snake bite poisoning with involuntary dribbling of saliva, loss of consciousness and loss of reflexes. Immediately after the intravenous injection the patient developed cyanosis and died.