[The diagnosis of poisonings by technical fluids]

More than 300 cases of severe poisonings with toxic technical liquids were analysed (methanol, dichlorethane, "medium" spirits, ethylenglycole and its ethyl ether, tetrahydrofurfuric alcohol). Various signs of intoxications are shown, clinical symptoms, as well as its dynamics, diagnostic significance, some diagnostic errors and methods of its prevention. A conclusion is made concerning the necessity of a complex approach towards differential diagnosis of acute poisonings with toxic technical liquids.