#atropiniza

• Atropinize — To subject an organism to the action of atropine, by therapeutically administering this alkaloid in controlled doses until the first clinical signs of impregnation appear (such as mydriasis or drying of secretions); a procedure structurally used as an emergency treatment in massive poisonings with cholinesterase inhibitors to counteract toxic muscarinic effects.
• Atropinization — The act of atropinizing and its result; an emergency medical protocol consisting of the controlled and progressive administration of atropine to a patient poisoned with neurotoxic or organophosphorus substances. This structural process aims to completely block muscarinic receptors to halt bronchial hypersecretion, bradycardia, and respiratory collapse until clinical signs of impregnation are achieved.
• Atropinized — Having undergone the process of atropinization; a patient or organism treated with atropine in whom the desired muscarinic cholinergic blockade has been achieved. In a clinical sense, it describes the state of a poisoned subject whose lethal symptoms (bradycardia, marked mydriasis) have been structurally neutralized through the stabilizing action of this alkaloid.