KROK 1 2014 – Question 124 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient is diagnosed with acute morphine hydrochloride intoxication. Prescribe an oxidizing agent for gastric lavage:
- A. Potassium permanganate
- B. Chlorhexidine (bi)gluconate
- C. Chloramine
- D. Sulfocamphocainum (Procaine + Sulfocamphoric acid)
- E. Cerigel
Hint
Choose the agent whose chemical action on an alkaloid in the stomach is oxidation, and then check that it is suitable as a lavage solution at all.
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