Citation

Goodhart GL. South. Med. J. 1994; 87(8): 814-816.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Southern Medical Association)

DOI

10.1097/00007611-199408000-00010

PMID

8052890

Abstract

A 54-year-old man deliberately drank a potassium-gold cyanide solution that contained approximately 1,650 mg of potassium cyanide. He survived after treatment with the Lilly antidote kit and hyperbaric oxygen.

Language: en

Keywords

Antidotes; Charcoal; Chelating Agents; Humans; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Male; Middle Aged; Nitrates; Pentanols; Poisoning; Potassium Cyanide; Suicide, Attempted; Thiosulfates