Common poisonings and their management – Powerpoint presentation (ppt)

Powerpoint presentation summary:

  • General considerations
    • Statistics
    • Important things to remember
  • Aspirin
    • Indications
    • Clinical presentation in aspirin overdose
    • Complications
    • Management of salicylism
  • Paracetamol
    • Clinical presentation
    • Use of IV N-acetylcysteine
  • Carbon monoxide
    • Mechanism of hypoxia
    • Use of hyperbaric oxygen in management
  • Cocaine poisoning
  • Opiates
  • 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine – MDMA (Ecstasy)

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