Successful treatment of severe atenolol overdose with calcium chloride.

Lipid Rescue Therapy and High-Dose insulin Euglycemic Therapy are Effective for Severe Refractory Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose: Case Report and Review of Literature

Background: High-Dose Insulin Euglycemic Therapy (HIET) and Lipid Rescue Therapy (LRT) are new alternative treatments for acute poisoning with calcium channel blockers. In this report a severely poisoned patient with verapamil and furosemide who was successfully treated with these two treatments is presented. Case report: A 27-year-old woman was brought to “Mother Theresa” Clinical Center in Sk...

Severe Overdose of Calcium Channel Blocker and Successful Management: A Literature Review and Case Report

Report of severe menorrhagia following the maximum amount of lamotrigine overdose

Lamotrigine is an antiepileptic drug used as a treatment for partial and generalised seizures as well as for bipolar disorder type I. Till date, very few cases of lamotrigine overdose have been reported. The spectra of clinical effects of lamotrigine in acute overdose are not well established. In severe cases of poisoning, serious effects such as coma, respiratory depression, recurrent seizures...

Report of severe menorrhagia following the maximum amount of lamotrigine overdose

Lamotrigine is an antiepileptic drug used as a treatment for partial and generalised seizures as well as for bipolar disorder type I. Till date, very few cases of lamotrigine overdose have been reported. The spectra of clinical effects of lamotrigine in acute overdose are not well established. In severe cases of poisoning, serious effects such as coma, respiratory depression, recurrent seizures...

Beta-Blocker Overdose Treated with Extended Duration High Dose Insulin Therapy

Poisoning and overdose of beta-blockers may be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Management is often complicated by failure of initial first-line interventions in severe ingestions. High-dose insulin, or hyperinsulinemia/euglycemia therapy has been well described in calcium channel blocker overdose as well as mixed ingestions of calcium channeland betablocker agents. The data...