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ACUTE EXPOSURE INFORMATION

1. USES: Barium nitrate is a soluble barium salt used in the manufacture of pyrotechnics (fireworks) and barium peroxide, for green signal lights and neon lights, and in the vacuum-tube industry. It is also used in ceramic glazes, incendiaries, electronics, tracer bullets, primers and detonators; it was formerly used in some rodenticides.

2. TOXICOLOGY: Rapid onset, severe hypokalemia is caused by sequestration of potassium in skeletal muscle cells, secondary to barium blocking potassium efflux via the sodium-potassium pump in those cells.

3. EPIDEMIOLOGY: Poisoning is rare, and most often occurs after deliberate ingestion.

4. WITH POISONING/EXPOSURE
   1. MILD TO MODERATE POISONING: Nausea, vomiting, colicky abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
   2. SEVERE POISONING: Profound hypokalemia, severe muscle weakness/paralysis including diaphragmatic muscles leading to hypoventilation, hypertension, and ventricular dysrhythmias/fibrillation.

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