…period, for example after poisoning, since this is not compatible with a DCD process. The assessment of medical suitability is made by the transplant team…

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

…drifts off into a respiratory acidosis. Treatment is guided by the saturation and the blood gas, not by the diagnosis alone. Indications Hypoxaemia: a saturation…

…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…

CPR Poisoning and drug toxicity In adolescents and young adults, intoxication events leading to cardiac arrest are notably prevalent, primarily due to the misuse of…

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…

…mean nothing. Capture is verified only when every pacing spike is followed by a wide QRS complex and a pulse that can be felt. The…

…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…

…kg) Adrenaline IV (only in shock, by experienced staff) 0.05–0.1 mg at a time, diluted to 0.1 mg/mL 1 µg…

…2. Assess the neurological symptoms and at the same time exclude other acute causes, for example hypoglycaemia, poisoning, stroke, meningitis and a postictal state. 3…

…ladder below follow the Swedish local sequence given in the original article. International guidelines and studies support the same principles, but local choices of drug…

…refractory fluid overload, uraemic symptoms (pericarditis, encephalopathy) and certain poisonings. Early initiation without an absolute indication has not been shown to improve survival. Parameter Guide…