…treatment protocols that are available where you practise. Initial management of all poisonings ABCDE Step Assessment and action : : A Assess the airway, the pharyngeal reflexes…

…removed by means of dialysis. Substance Antidot e Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) N Acetylcysteine Anticholinergics Physostigmine Anticoagulants (apixaban) Andexanet alpha Benzodiazepines Flumazenil The Black Widow, Spider Bett…

…sinus arrest, sick sinus syndrome with long pauses. Bradycardia in poisoning with a beta blocker, a calcium channel blocker or digitalis, while awaiting the antidote…

…instructions. Patients taking beta blockers may respond poorly to adrenaline. If there is no response, give glucagon 1–5 mg IV followed by an infusion…

Procedurer Alkalinising the urine increases the excretion of weak acids by keeping them in a charged form in the tubular fluid, where they cannot be…

…direct instillation into the lung. No tube may be used before its position has been verified by an approved method, and auscultation is not such…

…syndrome and a clinical diagnosis, often described as acute brain failure. It is precipitated by somatic illness, drugs, poisoning, withdrawal, surgery or several concurrent factors…

…serious poisonings in which the patient reaches hospital early. The benefit of both methods falls steeply with the time since ingestion, and both can harm…

…upper limit of normal: paracetamol poisoning, ischaemic hepatitis ("shock liver") or acute viral hepatitis. The three are distinguished by the history and the speed of…

…for the cause instead. Conditions in which the highest possible oxygen concentration is given irrespective of the saturation Carbon monoxide poisoning. The pulse oximeter does…