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Successful treatment of flecainide overdose with sustained mechanical circulatory support
Ms. A is a 33-year-old woman with a history of depression and polysubstance use disorder who presented to our hospital after transfer from another facility’s emergency department after an intentional flecainide overdose. Her spouse heard a “thud” at approximately 5 AM on the day of admission. He found her unconscious after she had ingested 12 tablets of 150-mg flecainide originally prescribed t...
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BACKGROUND Flecainide is an antiarrhythmic agent which is being used increasingly for the management of super-ventricular arrhythmias. Overdose with flecainide is frequently fatal with mortality reported as high as 22% due to arrhythmias, myocardial depression and conduction defects leading to electro-mechanical dissociation and asytole. Supportive measures are often required during the case an...
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Background: Medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. We introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. Case: A 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. Unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some preven...
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Errors are part of human nature and are usually present in our actions. Medical errors occur quite often and can be serious. Medication errors are among the most frequent, especially in newborn infants because of the multiple steps that occur during the process of prescribing and administering drugs and because most drugs are not licensed for being used in newborn infants (off-label). The aim o...
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Introduction Anti-arrhythmic drug therapy carries an understood risk for toxic side effects, even at therapeutic doses. In cases of high dose ingestion these toxic effects can present rapidly with extra-cardiac symptoms, malignant arrhythmias and lifethreatening hemodynamic deterioration. Prescribing clinicians should maintain familiarity with the mechanisms and kinetics of the anti-arrhythmic ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reactions Weekly
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1179-2051', '0114-9954']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40278-021-95074-3