…be used on its own to declare the patient well. Clinical findings, the ECG and targeted concentration measurements carry more weight. Where serious poisoning is…

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…

…in poisoning. Procedure 1. Contact your national or regional poison control centre in poisoning before treatment is started. They give current advice on the treatment…

…verified by an approved method, and auscultation is not such a method. Indications Decompression in ileus, subacute obstruction or gastric retention — the commonest indication on…

…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…

…precipitated by somatic illness, drugs, poisoning, withdrawal, surgery or several concurrent factors. A diagnosis of delirium is therefore the beginning of the investigation, not the…

…in poisoning — it rarely alters the course and adds a risk of aspiration. Repeated doses of charcoal are given in serious poisoning with agents that…

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

…litres on a reservoir mask and drifts off into a respiratory acidosis. Treatment is guided by the saturation and the blood gas, not by the…

…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…

…arise at the dilution step, not in the choice of dose. Paediatric doses are calculated on actual body weight unless otherwise stated. When the weight…

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

…respiratory depression was no more common — and sometimes less common — after a benzodiazepine than with continued untreated status [3,4]. In parallel with the drug…

…with a daily wake up trial shortens the time on the ventilator. See the article on confusion for the management of delirium in intensive care…