A Systematic Review of Ethanol and Fomepizole Use in Toxic Alcohol Ingestions
Table 3
Treatment and intubation data by EG and Me.
Variable
Ethylene glycol
Methanol
Ethanol
Fomepizole
Both
Ethanol
Fomepizole
Both
(n = 215)
(n = 65)
(n = 15)
(n = 505)
(n = 81)
(n = 18)
Regimen1
(n = 146)
(n = 59)
(n = 5)
(n = 251)
(n = 74)
(n = 13)
Fomepizole
Standard
39%
0%
70.3%
53.8%
Other
59%
100%
29.7%
38.5%
Ethanol
Oral only
2.7%
20%
11.1%
0%
IV only
87.7%
20%
30.2%
38.5%
Oral and IV
0.7%
20%
0.8%
0%
Intubation
(n = 33)
(n = 15)
(n = 3)
(n = 153)
(n = 12)
(n = 7)
(% of total reported)
78.8%
53.3%
33.3%
52.3%
58.3%
42.9%
Intubation after ADH blockade
(n = 25)
(n = 8)
(n = 1)
(n = 19)
(n = 7)
(n = 3)
(% of intubated patients)
16%
12.5%
0%
15.8%
0%
66.7%
ME: methanol, EG: ethylene glycol, IV: intravenous, ADH: alcohol dehydrogenase. Results are a combination of data from individual case data and aggregate data.
n in bold at top of each column represents total number of patients in the group. n in each cell represents number of patients for whom data was present.
1Percentages do not total 100% because some cases did not describe the route of ethanol dose.