How unclogging a sink can be lethal: case report of an accidental methyl bromide poisoning leading to a multiple organ failure

Methyl bromide (CH3Br) is a colorless and odorless volatile gas, used as an insecticide, fire extinguisher, fumigant, and refrigerant. Although forbidden since 1987 for domestic use, it is still used in industry, for example, to fumigate agricultural fields which are for importation in the United St...

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Autores principales: Lecailtel, Sylvain, Broucqsault-Dedrie, Céline, Vanbaelinghem, Clément, Nyunga, Martine, Colling, Delphine, Herbecq, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27408727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-015-0079-2
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author Lecailtel, Sylvain
Broucqsault-Dedrie, Céline
Vanbaelinghem, Clément
Nyunga, Martine
Colling, Delphine
Herbecq, Patrick
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description Methyl bromide (CH3Br) is a colorless and odorless volatile gas, used as an insecticide, fire extinguisher, fumigant, and refrigerant. Although forbidden since 1987 for domestic use, it is still used in industry, for example, to fumigate agricultural fields which are for importation in the United States. Here is the case of a 74-year-old man who was accidentally exposed to methyl bromide after using an old fire extinguisher. Even though he finally survived, he developed a severe multiple organ failure and spent 2 months in intensive care unit. We present in this report all the difficulties we had to diagnose this unusual poisoning.
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spelling pubmed-49408092016-07-13 How unclogging a sink can be lethal: case report of an accidental methyl bromide poisoning leading to a multiple organ failure Lecailtel, Sylvain Broucqsault-Dedrie, Céline Vanbaelinghem, Clément Nyunga, Martine Colling, Delphine Herbecq, Patrick J Intensive Care Case Report Methyl bromide (CH3Br) is a colorless and odorless volatile gas, used as an insecticide, fire extinguisher, fumigant, and refrigerant. Although forbidden since 1987 for domestic use, it is still used in industry, for example, to fumigate agricultural fields which are for importation in the United States. Here is the case of a 74-year-old man who was accidentally exposed to methyl bromide after using an old fire extinguisher. Even though he finally survived, he developed a severe multiple organ failure and spent 2 months in intensive care unit. We present in this report all the difficulties we had to diagnose this unusual poisoning. BioMed Central 2015-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4940809/ /pubmed/27408727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-015-0079-2 Text en © Lecailtel et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940809/
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