Antimalarial medications

If you want to pick the most toxic antimalarials, then these are the drugs of choice. Choloquine is the leading cause of overdose in countries with malaria endemics. If you understand sodium channel blockade (the same as a TCA overdose) then you will know how to treat these two drugs.

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DRUGS and TOXICANTS

Dr Neil Long BMBS FACEM FRCEM FRCPC. Emergency Physician at Kelowna hospital, British Columbia. Loves the misery of alpine climbing and working in austere environments (namely tertiary trauma centres). Supporter of FOAMed, lifelong education and trying to find that elusive peak performance.