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ToxCard: Acute Organophosphate Toxicity

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2,7 Organophosphate poisonings in agriculturally-centered communities are of public health concern in developing countries. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. 7 May lead to respiratory failure.

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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Apricot Kernels: Eat or pass?

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Although poisoning by ingestion of cyanogenic foods is much more common in tropical countries, there have been reported cases in the US [1, 3]. What are the symptoms of cyanide poisoning? How to you treat cyanide poisoning? [1, Hydroxocobalamin is the preferred antidote for cyanide poisoning. 2013 ;2013:610648.

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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Bark with Some Bite

ALiEM

How can people become poisoned with willow bark? With severe toxicity, patients can have altered mental status, seizures, hyperthermia, and pulmonary edema. 2013 May;5(5):330. Salicylate has a direct effect on the respiratory center of the medulla causing tachypnea. Tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain are common.

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ToxCard: Chronic Organophosphate Toxicity

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Organophosphate poisoning in agriculturally centered communities has developed into a public health concern in developing countries, poisons millions and kills hundreds of thousands each year worldwide and is a reason why understanding organophosphate toxicity has become a critical addition to our knowledge of toxicology. 2013;6:524.

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The Toxic Shelf

Cook County EM Blog

Signs and symptoms of toxicity include alerted mental status, seizures, CNS depression, apnea, respiratory failure, hypotension, ventricular dysrhythmias, and cardiac arrest. If a therapeutic dose is chewed, it can lead to bronchospasm, laryngospasm, seizures, and cardiovascular collapse which further reinforces the danger to children.

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Chemical Burns

Mind The Bleep

National Poisons Information Service (0344 892 0111) and TOXBASE have useful information on special chemicals and are accessible 24/7. These systemic effects can include central nervous system (agitation, seizures , and coma), as well as cardiac ( hypotension and dysrhythmias) [10, 11]. 2013 May;74(5):1363-6. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31828b82f5.

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Toxicology Answer: Milkweed (Asclepias)

ACEP Now

Although cases of human milkweed exposure are rare, a 2013 case reported a 42-year-old man experiencing cardiac symptoms and nausea after consuming fried milkweed pods from a recipe he found online. In the ED, he was found to have a heart rate in the 40s, and a digoxin level of 1.0 ng/mL (cross reactivity of the assay) and a potassium of 4.2