With a normal AKG level, the patient was started on a 5 mcg/kg/minute dopamine infusion. After receiving intensive care for 6 hours, the patient started to experience agitations and respiratory distress and developed resistant hypotension that was unresponsive to liquid replacement. Full blood count, biochemistry, coagulation parameters, and arterial blood gas (ABG) readings of the patient were normal, with urine output at 0.5 mL/kg/hour, and the patient was hemodynamically stable. The patient was administered at a rate of 3 L/m oxygen through a mask. To improve the patient's urine output, furosemide was started after the fluid replacement IV. Activated charcoal application at 2 mg/kg was continued, and supportive therapy was initiated. The patient's hemodynamic data was as follows: blood pressure 90/60 mmHg, SpO2 97, and pulse 85/m. As the patient was evaluated in the emergency ward and subject to the initial intervention procedures, the consent form was signed by the patient's relatives, and the patient was taken to the intensive care unit. She was conscious, tending toward sleep, GKS 12, lung sounds natural, blood pressure 100/60 mmHg, and pulse 82 per minute. The patient was dispatched from here to the university hospital she was treated in the emergency ward.
The patient underwent gastric flushing and activated charcoal treatment at the county government hospital where she was admitted.
A 21-old-year female ingested 6 grams of zinc phosphide mixed with water in order to commit suicide.
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