Tag Jeffrey S. Shiffrin

Physostigmine, Eserine

Uses Central anticholinergia; used for diagnosis and treatment in patients with a Hx of anticholinergic ingestion and/or exposure: Atropine, scopolamine, belladonna, jimson weed, toxic mushrooms, tricyclics, phenothiazines, antihistamines, benzodiazepines, opiates, inhalation anesthetics, propofol, GHB. “Blind as a bat”: Mydriasis and…