Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Shinto Francis T

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• Case Report
  A Case Series of Acute Methanol Poisoning from Northern Kerala
  Author(s): Shinto Francis T, Jyotish Nair R, Shiji PV, Shaan Mohamed, Geetha P and Sasidharan PK Shinto Francis T, Jyotish Nair R, Shiji PV, Shaan Mohamed, Geetha P and Sasidharan PK
  
  Background: Methanol is a cheap, potent adulterant widely used in illicit liquor. There have been several episodes of mass methanol poisoning in our country with varying mortality and morbidity rates. Serious attempts to study the profile and common variables of such patients have not been attempted from Kerala. Aim: To study the clinical profile and prognostic factors in patients who were victims of the methanol poisoning admitted in a teaching hospital. Methodology: Twenty four cases of methanol poisoning from adulterated toddy admitted to Calicut Medical College Hospital in September 2010 during a single outbreak of a hooch tragedy were studied. Results: Out of total 24 admissions, 4 died and 4 developed permanent blindness. Of the 4 patients who died, 3 were brought in a critical condition, and succumbed to the toxic effects of methanol even before starting an.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000312

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