Toxicology Answer: Ingested Batteries
Button battery ingestions can cause tissue necrosis within hours. Identify critical X-ray differentiation signs and immediate ED management protocols.
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Toxicology Answer: Ingested Batteries
Button battery ingestions can cause tissue necrosis within hours. Identify critical X-ray differentiation signs and immediate ED management protocols. -
Toxicology Question: Which Power Source Can Pack a Toxic Punch?
Learn to evaluate foreign body ingestions, including key X-ray readings and critical intervention timelines. -
What EPs Should Know about Cyanide Toxicity in Smoke Inhalation
Suspect HCN in fire victims with severe lactic acidosis. Early empiric hydroxocobalamin in the ED is a lifesaving priority.
Toxicology Question: Which Power Source Can Pack a Toxic Punch?
Learn to evaluate foreign body ingestions, including key X-ray readings and critical intervention timelines.
What EPs Should Know about Cyanide Toxicity in Smoke Inhalation
Suspect HCN in fire victims with severe lactic acidosis. Early empiric hydroxocobalamin in the ED is a lifesaving priority.
Toxicology Question: What Is Safer to Toss Than Swallow?
Hint: It is the most common non-food item swallowed by children.
Toxicology Answer: A Coin
Dr. Jason Hack reviews an ED pica case to clarify imaging, location risks, and when coin ingestion warrants emergent intervention.
Case Report: Massive Amitriptyline and Bupropion Ingestion
A patient presenting with severe cardiotoxicity and absent brainstem reflexes, mimicking brain death, is found to have a gastric pharmacobezoar prolonging drug absorption.
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Presentation Varies
Your first patient of the morning is a 19-year-old college student. Her roommate talked her into coming…
Toxin-Induced Hypotension Treatment Tips
Acute toxic ingestions are a common reason for presentation to the emergency department (ED) and clinical scenarios…
Case Report: Toxic Hypoglycemic Syndrome
An 18-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal…
10 Pitfalls of Salicylate Poisoning
Salicylates, principally acetylsalicylic acid (ASA or aspirin), remain a common cause of poisoning morbidity and mortality. In…