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SummaryA case of accidental poisoning with sodium cyanide is reported. The patient was treated with a new antidote, dicobalt edetate (Kelocyanor). Blood levels of cyanide were shown to fall markedly.

Use of Resuscitation Rooms SIR,-I would like to congratulate Mr. J. C. Scott on the report on the excellent accident service he has established and developed in Oxford over the last 25 years (3 June, p. 632). I am particularly envious of his attendance rate of 1.1 per patient, as I have been unable to reduce mine below 1.5. I would, however, like to draw attention to a sentence which I find disturbing-that is, "Non-accident emergency cases were taken direct to the admitting department and were not the responsibility of the Accident Service." The resuscitation room is the vital core of the modern accident and emergency department. In it lives are saved, and it seems to me wrong to exclude from it nontraumatic emergencies which need its faci

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