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Drugs in the emergency setting

…maximum 2 g Calcium chloride 10 mL of 100 mg/mL in hyperkalaemia, hypocalcaemia, calcium channel blocker poisoning 0.2 mL/kg Sodium bicarbonate 50…

Transcutaneous and transvenous pacing

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

Cardiac arrest in intoxication (poisoning)

…Botulism (botulinum toxin) Botulism Ininum antitoxin Beta blocker Glucagon IV Calcium flow inhibitor (calcium blocker) Calcium iv High dose insulin with glucose IV Carbamates Atropine…

Urinary alkalinisation

…ionised calcium, creatinine, CK in rhabdomyolysis, and salicylate concentration in poisoning. Procedure 1. Contact your national or regional poison control centre in poisoning before treatment…

Poisoning: quick reference for antidotes and initial management

…International guidelines must be adapted to the antidotes, analytical methods and treatment protocols that are available where you practise. Initial management of all poisonings ABCDE…

Nasogastric tube

…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…

Delirium in older adults: quick reference

…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…

Gastric lavage and activated charcoal

…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…

Liver parameters

…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…

Oxygen therapy

…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…

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