Feb 28, 2019
Today, we're going to discuss anticholinergic toxicity.
This is an important one as there are a ton of medications out there that have anticholinergic properties.
We have a 75 year old female with a past medical history of Parkinsons, COPD, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
She presents from a skilled nursing facility...
Feb 21, 2019
We have an 18 year old male with a past medical history of depression and anxiety who presents with remorse following an intentional ingestion of anything he could find in his parents medicine cabinet.
He believes he took about a handful of tylenol tablets and thinks they were about 10 pills of 500 mg extended...
Feb 15, 2019
Over the next few weeks, I want to do a mini toxicology series. With the amount of new drugs and the amount of overdoses which are occurring, I think it's important for providers to know...
- The clinical presentation
- Diagnosis
- Differential Diagnosis
- Workup
- Management
...for these critical patients.
Today, we'll be...
Feb 8, 2019
We have a 32 year old male with a past medical history of ETOH abuse (1 pint of vodka daily), ETOH related seizures, and hypertension.
He presents with a complaint of severe epigastric pain and tenderness which started about a day ago and has progressively worsened over the day.
The patient said he attempted to eat and...