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Image Credit: Flickr Author: Pollianne Ward, MDTemple University Hospital Originally Published: Modern Resident January 2013 A 46-year-old female presented to an urban emergency department with complaints of a fall and altered mental status per family. It was reported that the patient had begun to experience nausea and vomiting followed by somnolence one day prior. She […]

Image Credit: Flickr Pranjal Mahna Author: Matt Rosen, MSIVGeorgetown School of Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Background: Clonidine was once a popular antihypertensive agent, and while its use as a primary blood pressure agent has declined, it continues to have a role in hypertension management for some patients. Clonidine is also […]

Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2010 Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair Iron toxicity remains a common toxidrome in the emergency department and is the leading cause of pediatric overdose death under age 6. Its antidote, defuroxamine, was recently designated by the Antidote Summit Authorship Group (Ann Emerg Med, Sept. 2009) as a medicine […]