Drug toxicities

Question 1

What is used to treat malignant hyperthermia associated with anaesthetic use

Answer 1

Dantrolene

Question 2

Benzodiazepine overdose antidocte

Answer 2

Flumazinil

Question 3

Opioid overdose antidocte

Answer 3

Naloxone

Question 4

What route should benzos NOT be given by for convulsions

Answer 4

IM

Question 5

Repeated doses of what medication can be used for overdose of carbamazepine, dapsone, phenobarbital, quinine and theophylline

Answer 5

activated charcoal

Question 6

Within the first hour of salicylate poisoning what can be given

Answer 6

activated charcoal

Question 7

If a patinet with paracetamol overdose weighs >110kg, what weight should be used to calculate the amount of paracetamol ingested

Answer 7

110kg

Question 8

In terms of the treatment line for paracetamol overdose, who should be treated?

Answer 8

Those on or above the treatment line

Question 9

What is a staggered paracetamol overdose

Answer 9

Overdose over more than 1 hour

Question 10

How long is a NAC infusion?

Answer 10

21 hours (1, 4, 16)

Question 11

Treatment for beta blocker overdose

Answer 11

Glucagon IV

Question 12

Dicolbat edetate is used to treat what poisoning

Answer 12

Cyanide

Question 13

Ethylene glycol and methanol poising can be treated with

Answer 13

Fomepizole or if necessary ethanol

Question 14

Pralidoxime chloride is used in the treatment of what posioning

Answer 14

Organophosphates

Question 15

REversal agent for heparin

Answer 15

protamine