Leveraging Plasma Concentration Levels to Optimize Extracorporeal Treatment in Acute Diquat Poisoning

Inclusion criteria

• ✓. history of oral exposure to diquat solution reported by patient or proxy;
• ✓. a specimen for the plasma diquat concentration collected immediately upon admission;
• ✓. documentation that patients or, in case of unconsciousness of the patient, legal proxies were aware of and agreed to treatment plans.
• ✓. they had ingested other toxins in addition to diquat (qualitative toxicological screening tests);
• ✓. diquat was not detected in specimens, or plasma concentration data were unavailable;
• ✓. patients with an exposure time (time from exposure to presentation) longer than 48 hours;
• ✓. patients had ECTR prior to ED presentation.