A factory worker has been admitted to the emergency department after an industrial accident involving organophosphate insecticides. The nurse will prepare to administer which drug?

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Indirect-acting drugs such as pyridostigmine inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AChE), thus reversing the neuromuscular blockade produced by anticholinergic poisoning as well as poisoning by irreversible cholinesterase inhibitors such as the organophosphates and carbonates, common classes of insecticides. The other drugs listed are not appropriate antidotes.

A Factory Worker Has Been Admitted to the Emergency Department