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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Mind The Bleep

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Severe jaundice causing kernicterus may also cause central hypotonia and seizures. Everything Else Examine the abdomen for any organomegaly which can occur in metabolic or storage disorders or SCORTCH infections Look for signs of jaundice which can occur with hypothyroidism or inborn errors or metabolism.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2020, bupropion was the 18 th most-prescribed medication in the USA. 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.

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EMDocs

JUNE 7, 2023

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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EMDocs

JUNE 14, 2023

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. CorePendium.

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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. 2020 Aug 15;417:213343. 2020.213343.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 5, 2025

Potential complications include dysrhythmias, respiratory failure, DIC, seizures, and hepatic failure. 2020 Sep;142(3):233-241. Epub 2020 Aug 2. An 11-year retrospective review of cyproheptadine use in serotonin syndrome cases reported to the California Poison Control System. Acta Psychiatr Scand. doi: 10.1111/acps.13215.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 22, 2025

These included seizures, delirium, ARDS, hypotension, hypertension, and aspiration. drug seizure data, 2011-2016. Naloxone in opioid poisoning: walking the tightrope. 2020 Jan;75(1):13-17. The median IV dose administered was 0.2mg, and the median IM dose was 0.2 Published 2023 Sep 1. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021;218:108416.

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Taming the SRU

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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