Post 100!

By |2016-12-14T12:56:58-05:00August 30th, 2013|Uncategorized|

I wanted to use this post as a way to thank all of you readers out there. Teaching is far and away the best part of my job and I relish every opportunity to share what I have learned. I plan to keep things going [...]

Clonidine: A member of the ‘one pill can kill club’

By |2016-12-14T12:57:06-05:00December 7th, 2012|PEM Education Sessions, Toxicology|

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 [...]

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