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Early management after self-poisoning with an organophosphorus or carbamate pesticide – a treatment protocol for junior doctors

Michael Eddleston1,2 email, Andrew Dawson3,4 email, Lakshman Karalliedde5 email, Wasantha Dissanayake6, Ariyasena Hittarage6, Shifa Azher7 and Nick A Buckley8 email

1South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

2Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

3Department of Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Australia

4Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

5Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London, UK

6Anuradhapura General Hospital, North Central Province, Sri Lanka

7Polonnaruwa General Hospital, North Central Province, Sri Lanka

8Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Canberra Clinical School, ACT, Australia

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Critical Care 2004, 8:R391-R397doi:10.1186/cc2953

Published: 22 September 2004

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