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Glycemic status as a predictor for the outcomes in patients with acute organophosphorus pesticides poisoning

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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• Pesticide Toxicology

Abstract

Acute organophosphate (OP) toxicity is a major health problem in different populations. Nearly three million cases are affected annually all over the world. The most common clinical presentations include muscarinic, nicotinic and central nervous system manifestations resulting from cholinergic overload. Nevertheless, endocrine toxicity and affection of glucose homeostasis are reported. The current study aimed to study random blood sugar (RBS) as a simple, inexpensive tool to predict mortality and major outcome events in acute organophosphate poisonings. Ninety adult patients with acute organophosphate poisoning were included in the study. Patients already known to be diabetic before exposure and those with mixed intoxication were excluded. RBS was done to all included patients on admission before receiving any medications. Patients were categorized into euglycemics (62.2%), hyperglycemic (28.9%) and hypoglycemics (8.9%). The severity of organophosphorus poisoning symptoms and signs was graded into; Mild (32.2%), Moderate (38.9%) and Severe (28.9%) grades with a statistically significant association between RBS and poisoning severity at the time of admission. In addition, RBS showed a statistically significant association with each of serum cholinesterase levels, the delay time before hospital admission, the need for intubation, mechanical ventilation and death. Meanwhile, RBS had no statistically significant association with either doses of atropine & toxogonine nor the duration of hospital stay.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2021.44206.1169

Keywords

Acute Organophosphate Toxicity, random blood sugar (RBS), Ventilation, mortality

Authors

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Sagah

MiddleName

Attia

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department,Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University,Tanta,Egypt

Email

ghadaattia@med.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

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First Name

Amira

Last Name

Elhawary

MiddleName

Elsayed

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Email

amira.elhawary@med.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

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Volume

21

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

22049

Issue Date

2021-03-01

Receive Date

2020-10-02

Publish Date

2021-03-01

Page Start

129

Page End

137

Print ISSN

1687-0875

Online ISSN

2535-1915

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/article_156225.html

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9

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Original Article

Type Code

429

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

Publication Link

https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023