anticholinesterase toxicity (muscarinic toxidrome)

Epidemiology

• pesticides contain organophosphates & carbamates
• physostigmine & neostigmine are pharmaceutical carbamates

Pathology

• both carbamates & organophosphates inhibit acetylcholinesterase

Management

• treatment for carbamate toxicity is the same as for organophosphate toxicity (see organophosphate toxicity)

More general terms

• toxicity; poisoning; overdose

More specific terms

• anticholinesterase overdose
• carbamate toxicity
• organophosphate toxicity

Additional terms

• cholinesterase inhibitor