TITLE: SIGNIFICANCE OF SERUM PSEUDOCHOLINESTERASE LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND POISONING” INTRODUCTION: Acute poisoning is important cause of morbidity and mortality in India. In medical emergency 10% of admissions are due to poisoning and organophosphorus poisoning contributes to nearly 50% of it.[1]Apart from use of these substances as agricultural insecticides, pesticides, they are frequently abused for suicidal purposes because of their low cost, rapid action and easy availability. They have been imported in India since 1951, but very few knew the nature of these compounds as a virulent poison till the Kerala food poisoning tragedy in 1958. This tragedy took a toll of hundred and add due to inadvertent stocking of food stuff and folidol packages in the same hold where the folidol containers leaked and contaminated the gunny bags containing food stuff[2]. Exposure to organophosphorus compounds in the form of nerve agents and pesticides poses an ever increasing m...
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