KROK 1 2021 – Question 140 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A child with mushroom (fly agaric) poisoning was brought into a toxicology department. What drug should be administered first as a part of emergency aid?
- A. Papaverine
- B. Unithiol (Dimercaptopropansulfonate sodium)
- C. Atropine
- D. Naloxone
- E. —
Hint
Exam teaching treats this as the classic 'muscarine' picture of mushroom poisoning (salivation, sweating, miosis, bradycardia); look for the drug acting on the cholinergic system, not a spasmolytic, chelator or opioid antagonist.
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