People exposed to low or moderate doses of strychnine by any route will have the following signs or symptoms: Agitation Apprehension or fear Ability to be easily startled Restlessness Painful muscle spasms possibly leading to fever and to kidney and liver injury Uncontrollable arching of the neck and back Rigid arms and legs Jaw tightness Muscle pain and soreness Difficulty breathing Dark urine Initial consciousness and awareness of symptoms People exposed to high doses of strychnine may have the following signs and symptoms within the first 15 to 30 minutes of exposure: Respiratory failure inability to breathe , possibly leading to death Brain death Showing these signs and symptoms does not necessarily mean that a person has been exposed to strychnine.
What the long-term health effects are If the person survives the toxic effects of strychnine poisoning, long-term health effects are unlikely. How you can protect yourself, and what you should do if you are exposed to strychnine Since ingestion is likely to be the primary route of exposure, if poisoning is suspected, avoid any further ingestion and call immediately.
Recovery from strychnine exposure is possible with early hospital treatment. Therefore, the best thing to do is get medical care as quickly as possible. Do not induce vomiting or give fluids to drink. If you think strychnine may have been released into the air, the best thing to do is avoid it. If the strychnine release was indoors, get out of the building. If the release was outdoors, move away from the area of the release, stay upwind if possible, and seek higher ground.
Quickly moving to an area where fresh air is available is highly effective in reducing the possibility of death from exposure to a chemical that has been released into the air. Any clothing that has to be pulled over the head should be cut off the body instead of pulled over the head.
If you are helping other people remove their clothing, try to avoid touching any contaminated areas, and remove the clothing as quickly as possible. Washing yourself: As quickly as possible, wash any strychnine from your skin with large amounts of soap and water. Washing with soap and water will help protect people from any chemicals on their bodies.
If your eyes are burning or your vision is blurred, rinse your eyes with plain water for 10 to 15 minutes. If you wear contacts, remove them and put them with the contaminated clothing. Do not put the contacts back in your eyes even if they are not disposable contacts. If you wear eyeglasses, wash them with soap and water. You can put your eyeglasses back on after you wash them. Disposing of your clothes: After you have washed yourself, place your clothing inside a plastic bag.
The former type of blockage, at least, can mean death. How much air is needed to kill you? That's debatable and doubtless varies, but generally speaking, a lot. One journal article I saw boldly declared that milliliters can be lethal — three-tenths of a liter! You'd need a bicycle pump to inject that. But much less will do the trick; it's said serious damage can result from as little as 20 milliliters, which still isn't a small amount.
In , New Hampshire physician Hermann Sander ended the life of a terminal cancer patient by injecting her with 40 milliliters of air — four syringes of 10 milliliters each. He called it a mercy killing when arrested but on the stand improbably claimed that he thought the patient was already dead; at any rate he was acquitted. But people have survived much larger amounts. French doctors reported in on an year old man scheduled for a CAT scan who was supposed to get 90 milliliters of contrast solution but instead got 90 milliliters of empty syringe.
Prompt treatment with pure oxygen saved him. Despite the uncertainties, air embolism has served as a reasonably dependable method of execution. After public outcry stopped Nazi gassing of mental patients in , psychiatric institutions were ordered to continue so-called mercy killings by less conspicuous means.
A program described as "wild euthanasia" began at the Meseritz-Obrawalde hospital in , with doctors selecting the victims and nurses doing the deed. While most of the murders were carried out with overdoses of sedatives, some patients were injected with air, which usually killed them within minutes. Though thousands of patients died, at trial years after the war, 14 nurses claimed they were just following orders and were acquitted.
Decades later, Germany saw another rash of murders-by-embolism when a nurse confessed to injecting an estimated 60 to milliliters of air into the veins of 15 seriously ill elderly patients. All died. So maybe not percent lethal. Thirteen patients had immediate cardiac arrest where mortality rate was Air emboli were mainly iatrogenic, primarily associated with endovascular procedures. They can develop within 10 to 20 minutes or sometimes even longer after surfacing.
Do not ignore these symptoms — get medical help immediately. Immediately place the patient in the left lateral decubitus Durant maneuver and Trendelenburg position. This helps to prevent air from traveling through the right side of the heart into the pulmonary arteries, leading to right ventricular outflow obstruction air lock. Shortness of breath, coughing up blood and feeling faint or dizzy, or passing out are also common symptoms.
Deep vein thrombosis DVT is a blood clot in the deep veins of your leg. Recompression is the most effective, though slow, treatment of gas embolism in divers. Normally this is carried out in a recompression chamber. As pressure increases, the solubility of a gas increases, which reduces bubble size by accelerating absorption of the gas into the surrounding blood and tissues.
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