Multimodal Elimination for Intoxication with a Lethal Dose of Organic Mercury

Table 2

⁢Clinical course during detoxification with DMPS.

Clinical Course
Day	Observation
3	pupils beginning to react to light
4	short periods of assisted ventilation
7	muscle fasciculations absent
9	spontaneous eye opening
10	spontaneous breathing
11	exanthema starts to decline
14	continuous spontaneous breathing
15	eye opening to verbal command
16	change from CRRT to intermittent dialysis
17	increasing vigilance
19	patient startles upon verbal command reflexes start to return
20	first spontaneous movement of extremities
23	first successful mobilization (with assistance) exanthema diminishes
25	increasing extremity movement
30	switch from dialysis to ultrafiltration only
31	visual fixation
33	patient mobilized from bed to chair
34	all standard reflexes bilaterally reestablished
37	spontaneous directed movement of all extremities