Treatment regimens antidotes

In this chapter the various antidotes and treatment regimes conducted on animal models and the treatment regimens recommended in human casualties are reviewed. 

No specific antidote is available. If ingested, absorption should be limited by either emesis or gastric lavage. Sublethal symptoms, if present, would result in cerebral edema and should be treated accordingly through administrations of an osmotic diuretic and corticosteroid. Treatment regimens for dogs and cats exposed to bromethalin includes emesis (in non-symptomatic animals only) and multiple doses of activated charcoal. 

Thiosulfate has been used primarily with sodium nitrite in a fixed antidotal regimen. The standard dose of sodium thiosulfate, which is supplied in the Lilly Cyanide Antidote Kit in 50-mL ampules, is 50 mL of the 250 mg/mL (12.5 g), given intravenously. A second treatment with half of the initial dose may be given. The pediatric dose is 1.65 mL per kilogram of body weight.55... 

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