HYDROGEN-CYANIDE POISONING - TREATMENT WITH COBALT EDTA

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 20  (6) , 414-416
Abstract
Three case reports are presented of employees who suffered varying degrees of exposure to hydrogen cyanide and their subsequent clinical courses following treatment with cobalt EDTA. A review of treatment modalities for CN- toxicity is given. Because of the degree of patient symptomatology associated with the use of cobalt EDTA, this therapy should be reserved only for patients with the most severe degrees of CN- exposure, and in all other cases combined sodium nitrite and sodium thiosulfate therapy should be employed.