201. Adrenaline is effective in reversing the inadequate heart rate response in atropine treated organophosphorus and carbamate poisoning
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Shilpa Reynal D'sa, Abhishek Samprathi, John Victor Peter, Grace Rebekah, Punitha Victor, Mohammad Sadiq, Binila Chacko, Jonathan Arul Jeevan Jayakaran, John Davis Prasad, and C Vignesh Kumar
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Adult ,Atropine ,Male ,Carbamate ,Epinephrine ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Toxicology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Organophosphate Poisoning ,0302 clinical medicine ,Heart Rate ,Heart rate ,Humans ,Medicine ,Prospective Studies ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Heart rate response ,business.industry ,Carbamate poisoning ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Blood pressure ,Anesthesia ,Female ,Carbamates ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
In acute organophosphorus (OP) or carbamate poisoning, some patients require high dose atropine to counteract the effects on heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP). This study describes the factors associated with high dose atropine therapy and the use of adrenaline to reverse the inadequate HR response to atropine.Consecutive patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) were prospectively recruited. Demographic data, treatment and outcomes of patients who failed to achieve target HR (100/min) or systolic BP90 mm Hg with either a cumulative atropine dose of 100-mg within 6-h following admission or an infusion of 30 mg/h for at least 3-h were compared with patients who achieved the targets. Factors associated with high dose atropine therapy were explored using logistic regression analysis and expressed as odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).Of the 181 patients admitted with OP or carbamate poisoning, 155 patients fulfilled inclusion criteria. The mean (SD) age was 35.7 (15.8) years; admission APACHE-II score was 14.6 (7.5). Heart rate and/or BP target was not achieved in 13.6%. In these patients, target HR was achieved after adding adrenaline infusion at 2-4 μg/min. Ventilation duration (11.6 ± 6.3 vs. 8.4 ± 6.9 days,High dose atropine therapy is required in a subset of patients with OP and carbamate poisoning and was associated with longer ventilation duration and ICU stay. Adrenaline infusion improved hemodynamics in these patients.
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- 2020