Courtesy of Steven Chan, one of the excellent Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellows at CCHMC, are some highlights from a toxicology talk given to the residents on the ED rotation. Activated charcoal is part of decontamination, but it doesn't work well for drugs like Iron, and [...]
Check out the newest edition of PEMBlog Shorts - the focused video series - which focuses on diphenhydramine poisoning.
Happy Halloween everyone. I thought I'd "celebrate" by posting about some rare but still clinically important spider bites. The two that get the most press in United States are the black widow (Latrodectus mactans) and brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa). Fortunately, there are only approximately 500 bytes [...]
Kids accidentally ingest medicines. In the Peds ED we are rightfully worried about opiates, BP meds, acetaminophen, and diabetes drugs (among many others) but we shouldn't overlook the potential dangers that come with iron ingestion. Let's take a look shall we? Why do humans need [...]
Cue the Michael Buffer intro... Yes, then age old question surfaces again. This is also probably something that most of us don't think about on a regular basis. many of our patients' parents may swear by on or the other (usually Ibuprofen) but is there [...]
Tis the season for flu-like symptoms. Many of you will see multiple members of the same family with the flu. But what if it isn't the flu? When should one be worried about carbon monoxide poisoning? Let's take a look at this colorless, odorless, potentially [...]
Pharmacology Clonidine is an imidazoline, a class of drugs that function as centrally-acting presynaptic alpha 2 agonists . Essentially clonidine acts like pushing down on the break pedal of sympathetic output thus decreasing sympathetically mediated vasoconstriction, cardiac inotropy, and chronotropy. It has rapid GI absorption and highly [...]