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ToxCard: Bupropion

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Bupropion lowers the seizure threshold and even at therapeutic doses patients can have seizures. 6 Severe toxicity: Seizures: It is unclear if seizures are caused by bupropion or the active metabolite, hydroxybupropion. 3 Seizures are dose-dependent. 3 Seizures are dose-dependent.

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Cardiac Rhythms/ECG Module

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Some families have unexplained deaths during sporting events, an unusual number of car accidents, seizures in someone without a formal diagnosis of epilepsy. For anyone approaching a structured ABC would be a priority to establish whether shock was present or not. What if this does not work?

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

HELLP Syndrome [pdf] Sara Paul MD Intrauterine Fetal Demise [ppt] Irene Hwang, MD Obesity in Pregnancy [pdf] Rafael Garabis, MD Seizures in Pregnancy [ppt] Sherifia Heron , MD Substance Abuse in Pregnancy [ppt] Sophia Y. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 3(1), 39. Episiotomy [ppt] Alice Teich, MD. Capriola, M.

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Neonatal Jaundice

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

He will be dehydrated – possibly in shock. Acute bilirubin encephalopathy may progress to an abnormal neurologic exam, seizures, apnea, or coma. 2007 Nov;25(4):1117-35, vii. My take away: we now have some evidence basis for using filtered sunlight as an adjunct for babies well enough to go home. He will be irritable.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. 2007; 2:2-11. Viral myocarditis Presenting with Seizure and Electrocardiographic Findings of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 14-Month-Old Child.

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure. Heat stroke can lead to end-organ dysfunction such as rhabdomyolysis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, cardiogenic shock, liver failure, and cerebral edema. The patient is agitated, not oriented, and becoming combative with ED staff. Becker, S.