TY  - JOUR
T1  - ATropine poisoning with psychosis
AU  - GAMBOA M, GAMBLE EW, III
Y1  - 1959/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010344013
JO  - A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 342
EP  - 344
VL  - 97
IS  - 3
N2  - The subject of atropinism has been discussed previously in case reports, but all of these reports have had something a little different to contribute. Atropine intoxication or poisoning is not infrequent, but cases in which the mental symptoms dominate the picture are quite rare. The case reported below is an illustration of the mental symptoms predominating. The child was studied and treated as an outpatient by the Psychiatric Service of the University of Alabama Medical School.A large majority of these cases can be accounted for by therapeutic accidents which result from carelessness on the part of physicians, pharmacists, patients, or unskilled hospital aides. There have been reports in the literature which are examples of this fact. Our case does not fit into this category but is thought rather to involve a person who had increased susceptibility or perhaps idiosyncrasy to this drug.Atropine intoxication occurs rather frequently when the
SN  - 0096-6916
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010344013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010344013
ER  -