Safe Prescribing — Flashcards

Management of patients who have taken a _____ paracetamol overdose involves NAC treatment regardless

Excretion of lithium primarily occurs in the _____

_____ is the most common salicylate

Hint: Drug

_____ and bradycardia are cardiovascular features of opioid overdose

_____ toxicity presents with a classic triad of altered mental state, pinpoint pupils (bilateral miosis) and respiratory depression

In _____, the overriding ABG picture in salicylate poisoning is a metabolic acidosis

Hint: demographic

Ethylene glycol is broken down by the _____ into the toxic metabolites: glycoaldehyde and oxalic acid

Management of mild-to-moderate lithium toxicity is _____

The first line management of _____ poisoning is fomepizole

Respiratory depression is a respiratory symptom of _____ overdose