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Toxicology Flashcards

1
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What is given if beta blocker intoxication?

A

Glucagon

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What is given in ethylene glycol ingestion?

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Fomepizole; inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase which inhibits conversion of ethylene glycol to oxalic acid and glycolic acid

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How does cyanide toxicity present?

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Flushing, headache, AMS, seizures, coma, arrhythmias, tachypnea then resp depression, pulm edema, GI sxs, metabolic acidosis, renal failure

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What must you worry about when infusing sodium nitroprusside?

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Cyanide accumulation

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5
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How do you treat cyanide toxicity?

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Sodium thiosulfate

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Presentation of arsenic poisoning

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Acute: Garlic breath, vomiting, diarrhea, QTc prolongation. Chronic: Hypo/hyperpigmentation, hyperkeratosis, stocking glove neuropathy.

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7
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Treatment of arsenic poisoning

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Dimercaprol, DMSA

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Presentation of lead poisoning

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Stocking glove neuropathy, anemia, GI complaints

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9
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Treatment of lead poisoning

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dd

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10
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Treatment of TCA poisoning

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Sodium bicarb

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Treatment of aspirin poisoning

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Sodium bicarb

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12
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Presentation of aspirin poisoning

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dd

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13
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Presentation of lithium poisoning

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dd

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14
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Treatment of lithium poisoning

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Hemodialysis

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15
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Treatment of iron poisoning

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Defuroxine

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16
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Presentation of iron poisoning

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Nausea, vomiting, green diarrhea, possibly hemorrhagic diarrhea, hypovolemic shock. Later findings are lactic acidosis, hepatotoxicity, and organ failure.

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Presentation of acetaminophen poisoning

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Nausea, vomiting, hepatic toxicity.

18
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Treatment of acetaminophen poisoning

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N-acetylcysteine

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