@article{ref1,
title="Methanol poisoning",
journal="Medicina intensiva",
year="2002",
author="Villanueva Anadón, B. and Ferrer Dufol, A. and Civeira Murillo, E. and Gutiérrez Cía, I. and Laguna Castrillo, M. and Cerrada Lamuela, E.",
volume="26",
number="5",
pages="264-266",
abstract="Methanol poisoning is a very infrequent problem but it causes a large morbimortality. It often occurs accidentally when using some industrial products such as antifreezes or solvents. In Spain attempted suicide is the most frequent way of poisoning. We report two fatal cases that present coma and metabolic acidosis (pH < 7) at hospital admission. In both of them the clinic suspicion was made in a late period and no specific treatment was instaured. We want to emphasize the importance of suspecting early this poisoning in the presence of coma and important metabolic acidosis. It is accepted that Methanol toxicity depends on its toxic metabolites. It is frequent that victims of methanol poisoning seem to be inebriated before other symptoms more due to toxic metabolites appear. The latent period reported in literature is very variable (from 1 to 72 hours). This shows us that it may be an early toxicity due to methanol per se.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0210-5691",
doi="10.1016/S0210-5691(02)79782-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0210-5691(02)79782-9"
}