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Clonidine toxicity

Clonidine has a vast array of uses including anxiety, ADHD, hypertension, withdrawal (opitates, alcohol and smoking), migraines, menopausal flushing, diarrhoea and finally pain. It causes the classic triad of drowsiness, miosis and bradycardia in overdose.
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Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine

Commonly used on holidays in malaria prone destinations, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine will not be over familiar to the emergency physician. However, it is one of the leading causes of drug overdose in malaria prone countries and also the occasional toddler has managed to consume the grandparents lupus or rheumatoid arthritis medication leading to lethal consequences.
EXAM Library 340

OSCE: Paediatric Iron Overdose

OSCE 10: Paediatric Iron Overdose. OSCEs done by recent fellows at a high level to provide an example of a good pass and additional advice on providing a framework to answer the scenarios.
EXAM Library 340

OSCE: Overdose Advice

OSCE 9: Overdose Advice. OSCEs done by recent fellows at a high level to provide an example of a good pass and additional advice on providing a framework to answer the scenarios.
Toxicology Library Tox Tutes 340

Tox Tute: Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose

A young male is unconscious and on his way to your hospital. Bystanders confirm he has been depressed and taken an overdose. The paramedics are worried about his ECG..."it looks weird and his QRS is very wide". The following tox tute will guide you through managing this patient.
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Mirtazapine toxicity

Mirtazapine is a novel tetracyclic antidepressant, in overdose it frequently has a benign course with mild CNS depression and tachycardia.
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SNRI toxicity

SNRIs or Selective serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors are mainly in the form of venlafaxine and desvenlafaxine. Venlafaxine in overdose can be potentially life threatening, causing seizures and cardiotoxicity.
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SSRI toxicity

SSRIs or Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are common in overdose and usually follow a benign course. Serotonin toxicity occurs in a minority but is more common with co-ingestant agents with serotonergic action
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TCA toxicity

This is your one stop page for TCA overdose. Find out how to manage the acute overdose and the potential complications. We have also covered the basic TCA pharmacology and a tutorial about sodium channel blockade and the ECG, find out why the QRS will widen.
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Sedating Antihistamines

The sedating antihistamines include brompheniramine, chlorpheniramine, cyproheptadine, dexchlorpheniramine, dimenhydrinate, diphenhydramine, doxylamine, pheniramine and promethazine
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Non-sedating Antihistamines

The non-sedating antihistamines include cetirizine, desloratadine, fexofenadine, levocetirizine and loratadine. In overdose they cause mild CNS depression, in therapeutic and supra therapeutic doses they have been associated with QT prolongation.
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Black Snake Antivenom

Black Snake antivenom (equine IgG Fab) can be used to treat envenomation from the black snakes in Australia and Papua New Guinea, these include the mulga snake, Butler's mulga snake, Collett's snake, Papuan black snake, red-bellied black snake and the blue-bellied black snake