Near fatal intoxication by nicotine and propylene glycol injection: a case report of an e-liquid poisoning

Table 1 Overview of Nicotine intoxication cases and their toxicological results

CASE	Route IV^a or PO^b	Co intoxication	Amout of *-Nicotine use (mg)	Time to sample (hours)	Plasmatic nicotine level μg/l	Plasmatic cotinine level μg/l	Clinical findings	Issue
Thornton [8]	IV	Amphetamine	400	x	2000	2100	Cardiac asystoly	†
Sommerfeld Case 1 [9]	Po	none	372	1.5	96	2800	Nausea, vomiting, Hypotension, bradycardia	survived
Sommerfeld Case 2 [9]	IV	Ethanol (70 mg/ml)	128.8	2	800	2400	Coma, bradypnea, nausea	survived
Martin kleish [21]	Po	none	2288.5	2	528	176	Tachycardia, hypertension, myosis, abominal pain	survived
Solarino [10]	Po	Ethanol 2,1 g/l	1000 (in stomach)	x	2200	2200	No data	†
Our case	IV	none	1000	18.5	12	3200	tachycardia, coma, bradypnea,mydriasis, myoclonus, flaccid paresia, type 2 NSTEMI	survived

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