5th Congress of APAMT - 6th to 8th August, Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo – Oral presentations
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Sunday 6th August 2006
	PARAQUAT
	Chairpersons: R. K. Sharma, N. Buckley
	Improvement in survival following paraquat ingestion after introduction of a new formulation with Inteon^® Technology in Sri Lanka (1)	Martin Wilks
	All published paraquat nomograms provide similar results in the prediction of a fatal outcome- a prospective validation (2)	Lalith Senarathne
	Treatment outcomes of acute paraquat poisoning with 14-day regimen of cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone (3)	S. Chomchai
	AGROCHEMICAL PAPERS LOW & CHRONIC EXPOSURE
	Chairpersons: J. F. Deng, S. Jayamanna
	Exposure to organophosphates: What about chronic exposure? (4)	Janaka de Silva
	Environmental exposure of the foetus to organophosphorus compounds (5)	Nirma Samarawickrama
	Low level organophosphate exposure and its effects on the motor unit (6)	Roshini Peiris-John
	Cognitive processing of visual and auditory stimuli in patients with organophosphate insecticide poisoning (7)	Tharaka Dassanyaka
	AGROCHEMICAL PAPERS: MECHANISMS & LIMITATIONS
	Chairpersons: J. de Silva, N. Senanayake
	Mitochondrial Dysfunction in OP poisoning (8)	Anna Oommen
	Rethinking organophosphate poisoning in the context of suicide in South India (9)	Anand Zachariah
	Factors influencing the diversity in clinical manifestation from severe acute OP-poisoning (10)	Horst Thiermann
	AGROCHEMICAL FREE PAPERS 1
	Chairpersons: A. Zachariah, M. Eddleston
	Determination of cholinesterase status in OP-poisoned patients: problems and pitfalls (11)	Horst Thiermann
	A Profile Of Acute Organophosphate Pesticide Poisoning Cases Reported To A Poison Information Centre In India (12)	A. B. Patel
	Neurophysiological Correlations in Organophosphate Poisoning (13)	Pradeepa Jayawardena
	Acute Chlorpyrifos Pharmacokinetics India (14)	Ramavathi Pal
	Variable clinical toxicity and response to pralidoxime of organophosphorus pesticides (15)	Michael Eddleston
	Human serum in the treatment of Organophosphorus poisoning (16)	Tarun Kumar Pandey
Monday 7th August 2006
	IMPACT OF TOXICOLOGY IN HEALTH POLICY
	Chairpersons: R. Fernando, W. Wanankul
	Social responsibility of a toxicologist. (17)	Ken Hartigan Go
	Chemical accidents and health policy implications – a pilot hazardous substances emergency events surveillance (hsees) project in Gujarat , India (18)	Aruna Dewan
	Pesticide safe storage devices in sri lanka – a feasible intervention to reduce self-poisoning? (19)	Flemming Konradsen
	Effecting Regulatory Change in Agrochemicals (20)	Gamini Manuwerra
	Costs to government health care services of pesticide poisoning treatment in Sri Lanka institute of policy studies (21)	Paul Steele
	AGROCHEMICAL FREE PAPERS 2
	Chairpersons: V.V. Pillay, A. Dawson
	Aluminium Phosphide (22)	Surjith Singh
	Novel presentation of accidental Ionophor Poisoning India (23)	Navneet Sharma
	Pesticide Poisoning in Asia (24)	Michael Eddleston
	Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with acute Organophosphate (OP) poisoning:an observational study (25)	C.D.A Gunasekara
	Randomised controlled trial of routine single or multiple dose dose superactivated charcoal for self-poisoning in a region with high mortality (26)	Ariyasena Hittarage
	Human toxicity of pesticides in self-poisoning (27)	Shifa Azher
	TOXINOLOGY
	Chairpersons: R. Sherif, A. Faiz
	Keynote: Tailoring Antivenom Treatment (28)	Geoff Isbister
	Syndrome or Snake Identification (29)	Ariaranee Ariyarathnam
	Management of local envenomation of humped nose viper bites by blister puncture: A practice against the norm (30)	T.U.N. de Silva
	NATURAL TOXIN FREE PAPERS
	Chairpersons: G. Isbister, A. Gnanadasan
	Life-Threatening Systemic Reaction with Angioedema After Gila Monster Envenomation is not IgE Mediated (31)	P. B. Chase
	Epidemiology of snakebite based on hospital survey in Chitwan and Nawalparasi Districts , Nepal (32)	D. Pandey
	Antisnakevenom: Use and adverse reaction in a snake bite study clinic in Bangladesh venom (33)	Robed Mohammad Amin
	Clinical profile and treatment outcome of Cleistanthus collinus poisoning in South India (34)	S.M. Rajeeb
	Aggressive Potassium Correction may halt death in Cleisthathus collinus poisoning. India (35)	Prof R Thirumavalan
	Epidemiologic data of plant poisonings in Taiwan from August 1986 to December 2005 (36)	T.J. Lin
Tuesday 8th August 2006
	NEW ALGORITHMS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL POISONING FOR LIMITED RESOURCE SETTINGS
	Chairpersons: A. Jones, S. Singhe
	Systematic collection of data on poisoned patients using a purpose-designed electronic database improves patient care (37)	Shaun Green
	Diagnosis of Poisoning of Unknown Origin: A Practical Approach To The Drowsy Poisoned Patient in A Resource Poor Setting (38)	Indika Gawarammana
	The economical burden of current management of patients with acute paracetamol poisoning in a tertiary care hospital of Sri Lanka (39)	Ganga Senarathena
	A study on the antioxidative effect as the mechanism of hepatoprotection by vetiveria zizanioides in paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity (40)	R.P. Hewawasam
	Estimating the effect of charcoal in overdose:	Geoff Isbister
	pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling and empirical
	studies in a Bayesian World (41)
	Pattern of Acute Pharmaceutical Poisonings in North East Iran , 1993-2000 (42)	Reza Afshari
	POISONS INFORMATION: LIMITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
	Chairpersons: K. Olson, D. Roberts
	IPCS INTOX programme for poison centres (43)	P. K. Abeytunga
	Toxinz: web based delivery of geographically appropriate poisons information (www.toxinz.com) (44)	John Fountain
	Low tech solutions to Poisons Information; Problems and Pitfalls (45) - No Abstract received.	Ravindra Fernanado
	TOXICOLOGY PAPERS
	Chairpersons: I. Gawarammana, P. Dargen
	The Role of the Toxicologist in Creating Awareness on Subtle Homicidal Poisoning (46)	VV Pillay
	Herbal remedies and risk of lead poisoning, encephalopathy, polyneuropathy and anaemia: three cases (47)	Indika Gawarammana
	Gastric lavage using Ryles safety India (48)	Ashish Bhalla
	Diagnostic utility of flumazenil in zopiclone overdose (49)	CC Yang
	Pilot survey on cases of poisoning and its out come in different category of hospitals in Bangladesh (50)	Robed Mohammad Amin
	A risk assessment tool for drug-induced QT prolongation (51)	Geoff Isbister
	Clinical outcomes from acute intentional self-poisoning with the herbicide propanil (3,4-dichloropropioanilide) (52) Click here to download abstracts of POSTERS.	Darren Roberts