Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Her husband called EMS when the patient experienced new onset seizures accompanied by micturition. However, cardiac syncope is always a differential diagnosis when someone presents with first time seizures. There are a number of things to look for in an ECG that can hint at arrhythmia as the cause of an apparent seizure.

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Cook County EM Blog

MAY 29, 2023

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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Taming the SRU

APRIL 17, 2023

Poison centers across the United States receive over 100,000 reports of exposures to toxic plants annually. More serious poisonings typically involve adults who ingest plants in larger quantities for recreational, self-harm, foraging or medicinal purposes (1). Spring has sprung. and so have many species of toxic plants! Decontaminate.

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ALiEM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Dyspnea Headache Syncope Coma Seizures How can you diagnose methemoglobinemia? Chemically induced methemoglobinemia from aniline poisoning. 2019, McGraw-Hill Education: New York. 2019, McGraw-Hill Education: New York. West J Med. 1984;140(2):282-286. PMID 6730477 Howland M. Nelson, et al., Nelson, et al., 1703-1712.

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EMDocs

JULY 19, 2023

Further, organic mercury readily crosses the placenta where it acts as a teratogen leading to a wide range of birth defects including developmental delay, blindness, seizures, and limb malformation. 6 The neurotoxicity caused by organic mercury poisoning is permanent, thus, you must act fast. Adverse Drug React Acute Poisoning Rev.

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What are the symptoms of nerve agent poisoning? [1, 1, 5] Muscarinic symptoms (Common acronyms SLUDGE or DUMBBELLS) Salivation, emesis, diarrhea, and lacrimation Miosis Seizures Bradycardia, bronchospasm, and bronchorrhea are usually the cause of death. Use benzodiazepines such as diazepam or midazolam for seizures. McGraw Hill.

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Jeff: Medicinally, cannabinoids are currently used in the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, complications of multiple sclerosis and paraplegia, weight loss due to appetite suppression in HIV/aids, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, seizures, and many other neuropsychiatric disorders.

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EB Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jeff: Do consider adding on a venous or arterial carboxyhemoglobin in the right clinical scenario, as CO poisoning represents an important cause of headache you wouldn’t want to miss. Seizures are very common as well. Accessed January 10, 2019. That’s quite a list. For a visual reference, see Table 3 in the print issue.

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