EMDocs

JULY 19, 2023

Diagnosis and Management: Whole blood mercury concentrations are the most useful for diagnosis of organic mercury poisoning, as organic mercury undergoes little urinary excretion. 6 The neurotoxicity caused by organic mercury poisoning is permanent, thus, you must act fast. Adverse Drug React Acute Poisoning Rev. Am J Cardiol.

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ALiEM

JUNE 15, 2023

Lily of the valley poisoning is important to recognize because it presents as digitalis toxicity [3]. ouabain, poison rope) Asclepias spp. 2, 5] Poisoning from plant cardiac glycosides causes reversible inhibition of sodium-potassium ATPase, which increases cardiac inotropy and automaticity. [2, The entire plant is toxic.

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Poisoning EKG/ECG Hospitals 98

Northwestern EM Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Clinical Findings of Methanol Poisoning CNS sedation Seizures Rapid, Deep Breathing Hypotension Ocular findings: Blindness Afferent pupillary defect Optic disk hyperemia Mydriasis Ethylene Glycol Toxicity Similarly, the toxic metabolites of ethylene glycol cause end-organ damage at levels greater than 20mg/dl.

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Poisoning Seizures Administration Pediatrics 52

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. 2003 Jul;40(7):620-5. When is it useful and what does it tell us?

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Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From these data, the authors looked at five reporting periods—2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012—and identified ARF case incidences of 0.63, 0.77, 0.64, 0.51, and 0.52, respectively, per 100,000 children. 5 Pediatric discharges were reported by 2,784 hospitals in 2000 and the number of reporting hospitals increased to 4,179 in 2012.

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Pediatrics Poisoning Hospitals Emergency Department 52

Taming the SRU

APRIL 10, 2023

Opioid-Associated Hearing Loss: A 20-Year Review from the New Jersey Poison Center. 2003 May 27;168(11):1421-3. Oxymorphone Insufflation Associated with Acute Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Case Files of the University of Massachusetts Medical Toxicology Fellowship. Journal of Medical Toxicology. 2013;9(2):179-183. 2020;16(4):416-422.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 27, 2014

Even after no longer having a role in resuscitation, CO2 was advocated for accelerating clearance of carbon monoxide poisoning into the 1950s and 1960s. New Treatment for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Carbonated Water Now Used In Gas Poisoning Treatment. Carbogen in experimental carbon-monoxide poisoning. In 1927, H.W.

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