Diagnostic problems of post-intoxication states
Petkova, V.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 2001(4): 21-24
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 11503230 Document Number: 532137
Complete clinical examination covered 37 patients in various stages after acute occupational poisonings with pesticides (8 examinees), with explosive gases (9 subjects), with carbon oxide (3 examinees), with cadmium oxides (1 examinee), with nitrogen compounds (4 ones), with sulfurous gases (2 examinees), with organic solvents (10 subjects) including chlorinated hydrocarbons (2 subjects). Post-intoxication period appeared to include syndromes characteristic for each poison and corresponding to severity of acute state (from cephalgia to parkinsonism and thyrotoxicosis after acute poisoning with carbon oxide, organic neurologic signs and toxic hepatitis after acute poisoning with phosphorus organic compounds, cerebral asthenia after acute exposure to organic solvents, severe encephalopathy and toxic auditory and optic neuropathy after hydrogen sulfide). Inadequate medical rehabilitation and continuous occupational exposure induced deterioration in clinical signs and advanced post-intoxication syndromes.