“People are afraid of getting injections”: feasibility of community-placed atropine auto-injectors in treating organophosphate poisoning in Sri Lanka
While our findings do not support introducing auto-injectors in the selected communities, it suggests placing them in the ambulances used to transport patients who have ingested pesticides. To further explore the need and feasibility of auto-injectors, similar situational, ethnographic analysis should be conducted in other parts of Sri Lanka and low- and middle-income countries with high numbers of acute organophosphorus insecticide poisoning and limited infrastructure facilities.
Authors
- Alice Street (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7874-0234)
- Upul Wickramasinghe
- Janet Perkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2868-1752)
- C. Samaranayake
- Michael Eddleston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6857-3441)
- Jane Brandt Sørensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1702-280X)
- Theekshana Balasuriya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2894-7943)
- Erandi Dissanayke
Institutions
- University of Peradeniya (LK)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (GB)
- South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (LK)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Toxicology
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15563650.2025.2571456
- Primary Topic
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00