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Poisoning: quick reference for antidotes and initial management

…In salicylate poisoning, intubation with an inadequate minute ventilation can rapidly worsen the acidaemia and increase the entry of salicylate into the central nervous system…

Cardiac arrest in intoxication (poisoning)

…essential to provide supportive care and maintain vital functions artificially until the substance undergoes renal elimination, hepatic elimination or is removed by means of dialysis…

Gastric lavage and activated charcoal

…modern treatment of poisoning. Charcoal also does not bind every poison. With the following substances charcoal is ineffective and management is instead governed by the…

Transcutaneous and transvenous pacing

…Twitching of the chest muscles and spikes on the screen mean nothing. Capture is verified only when every pacing spike is followed by a wide…

Hyponatraemia: quick reference for work-up and correction

…least 48 hours Unknown Treated as chronic with respect to the correction limits The brain adapts to prolonged hypotonicity by extruding electrolytes and organic osmolytes…

Oxygen therapy

…oxygen concentration is given irrespective of the saturation Carbon monoxide poisoning. The pulse oximeter does not distinguish carboxyhaemoglobin from oxyhaemoglobin and shows a falsely normal…

Status epilepticus: quick reference for emergency treatment

…and prepare step 2 at the same time By about 10 to 20 minutes at the latest Give a full loading dose of an intravenous…

Urinary alkalinisation

…effect; it is part of the treatment itself. Indications Salicylate poisoning with symptoms or a rising serum concentration. Alkalinisation increases renal elimination several fold and…

Delirium in older adults: quick reference

…distress. Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome and a clinical diagnosis, often described as acute brain failure. It is precipitated by somatic illness, drugs, poisoning…

Drugs in the emergency setting

…and PEA as soon as access is available; in VF/VT only after the 3rd defibrillation 0.01 mg/kg (0.1 mL/kg of…

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