The approach to the patient with an unknown overdose.

Abstract:

:Toxic overdose can present with various clinical signs and symptoms. These may be the only clues to diagnosis when the cause of toxicity is unknown at the time of initial assessment. The prognosis and clinical course of recovery of a patient poisoned by a specific agent depends largely on the quality of care delivered within the first few hours in the emergency setting. Usually the drug or toxin can be quickly identified by a careful history, a directed physical examination, and commonly available laboratory tests. Once the patient has been stabilized, the physician must consider how to minimize the bioavailability of toxin not yet absorbed, which antidotes (if any) to administer, and if other measures to enhance elimination are necessary.

authors

Erickson TB,Thompson TM,Lu JJ

doi

10.1016/j.emc.2007.02.004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-05-01 00:00:00

pages

249-81; abstract vii

issue

2

eissn

0733-8627

issn

1558-0539

pii

S0733-8627(07)00019-3

journal_volume

25

pub_type

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