…carboxypeptidase G2) Opioids Naloxone Organophosphates Atropine Pralidoxime Sulfonylurea Octreotide Thallium Prussian blue Tricyclic Antidepressants Sodium Bicarbonate Unfractionated Heparin Protamine Valproic acid L carnitine (limited evidence…

…hypocalcaemia, calcium channel blocker poisoning 0.2 mL/kg Sodium bicarbonate 50 mmol in hyperkalaemia or tricyclic poisoning 1 mmol/kg Reversible causes: hypoxia, hypovolaemia…

…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…

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…

…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…