Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning: Two Pediatric Patients and Two Different Clinical Outcomes

• Main Authors: Faruk Ekinci (Author), Rıza Dinçer Yıldızdaş (Author), Özden Özgür Horoz (Author), Özlem Tolu Kendir (Author), Ercüment Petmezci (Author), İlknur Tolunay (Author), Hayri Levent Yılmaz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Galenos Yayinevi, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aluminium phosphide is an insecticide that turns into a quite toxic gas called phosphine when contacts with gastric fluids. Aluminium phosphide poisoning causes severe metabolic acidosis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ failure with cardiogenic shock. Our first case was an-18-yea...