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From:Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Timothy. Petterson, Lindsay. Lyon, Bradley. Peckler A 51-year-old woman was brought into the Emergency Department (ED) following an intentional overdose of alcohol and her medication. Along with two bottles...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 109, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAmong the lists ranking various states and their attributes our beloved West Virginia is usually at the extremes of the rankings, either very good (e.g. murders) or very bad (e.g. obesity and its concomitants). For...
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From:Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 18, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sayandeep. Jana, Chandrashish. Chakravarty, Abhijit. Taraphder, Suresh. Ramasubban A 30-year-old female presented with coma and subsequent cardiac arrest caused by phenobarbital overdosage, requiring...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1335)[O] [S] A woman [age not stated] developed delayed circulatory failure after voluntary ingestion of a meprobamate [Mepronizine] overdose; the woman had a gastric band, and bezoar formation was considered a possible...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1297)
Fexofenadine/furosemide overdose: prolonged QT interval, hypokalaemia and hypocalcaemia: case report
[O S] A 23-year-old woman developed bradycardia, prolonged QT interval, hypokalaemia and hypocalcaemia following ingestion of an overdose of fexofenadine and furosemide [time to reaction onset not stated]. The... -
From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1318)[O] [S] A retrospective review of forensic cases identified 23 deaths associated with an overdose of sodium oxybate [y-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)]; in twenty-one of these cases, other substances might have impacted on the...
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From:Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Vol. 37, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPatients who have overdosed on drugs commonly present to emergency departments, with only the most severe cases requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Such patients typically survive hospitalisation. We studied...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1317)[O][S] A 65-year-old man developed central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) after receiving an inadvertent atropine sulphate overdose [time to onset not stated]. The man collapsed at a doctor's practice after...
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From:Neurology India (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Chih-Min. Su, Chia-Te. Kung, Yu-Chin. Wang, Cheng-Hsien. Lu Severe cardiac adverse effects are often related to intravenous phenytoin overdose. However, there is no reported cardiotoxicity resulting from oral...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1252)[O][S] A 2-year-old girl became comatose and experienced tonic-clonic seizures and ventricular tachycardia after ingesting an overdose of amitriptyline [Laroxyl]; she was successfully treated with plasmapheresis....
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1250)A 56-year-old woman developed lactic acidosis and acute respiratory acidosis, after taking an oral overdose of metformin and zolpidem in a suicide attempt. The woman, with type 2 diabetes mellitus, was brought to the...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1233)[*] [O] [S] A 31-year-old man developed serotonin syndrome, rhabdomyolysis and renal failure following a suicide attempt using sertraline (Lustral). The man had a history of depression for which he had been...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1234)[*] [O] [S] A 17-year-old girl experienced increased BP and seizures, and fell unconscious, after taking an overdose of moxonidine in a probable suicide attempt. The girl was hospitalised 3 or 4 hours after...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1253)
Isoflurane overdose: hypotension, T-wave inversion and ST-segment depression in a child: case report
[O][S] A 2-year-old child [sex not stated] developed hypotension, T-wave inversion and ST-segment depression following an isoflurane overdose due to overfilling of a vaporiser. Following anaesthesia induction with... -
From:Forensic Science International (Vol. 153, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Fatalities due to 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") are rare in Austria, although the use of designer drugs has become quite common. This is the first published case of a fatal MDMA...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 55, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedVisitors to this Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Web site will be able to access the report Year-End 2000 Emergency Department Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network....
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From:Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: The optimal dose, route, and duration of acetylcysteine therapy for prevention of hepatic injury after acute acetaminophen poisoning remain unclear. Methods: We conducted a structured medical record review...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 46, Issue 14)LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. -- Mortality related to prescription opioids is still climbing nationwide but not in centers or regions where there has been widespread implementation of guidelines for appropriate use, according...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 91, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn February 2016, a California judge sentenced Dr Hsiu-Ying Tseng ("Dr Tseng") to 30-years-to-life in prison after a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder for 3 patient drug overdose deaths. (1) This marked the...
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From:Clinical Advisor (Vol. 20, Issue 10)Nearly 308 million Americans see a clinician each year primarily because of pain. Of these, 100 million are living with chronic pain, or pain lasting longer than 3 months. (1) An opioid prescription is given to 20% of...