[Anticyan--a new highly effective antidote in cyanide poisoning].

Anticyan is a highly effective antidote of cyanic acid and cyanide-containing compounds. It was created at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology of AMS of Ukraine. Anticyan differs from other existing cyanide antidotes in that it possesses a tready methemoglobin-formation activity, has no hypotensive effect and is capable of direct stimulation of cyanide-inhibited tissue respiration.