Category:Overdose
Template:Discussion Would appreciate some guidance in priorizing and picking a primary diagnosis in some of these cases.
- For example, if the patient overdoses on multiple drugs (calcium channel blocker, Ace inhibitor, ETOH, ASA, Tylenol, Ramipril, etc.) and there are many diagnostic issues then how do we priorize this?
- Do we put the worst drug first? (ie. CCB)
- Do we put the suicide attempt code first?
- Do we put the respiratory failure first?
- Do we put the acidosis first?
- Other issues:
- Kidney failure
- Aspiration pneumonitis
- Electrolyte disturbances
- Also when we list all the drugs one by one as overdoses should we use the same priority number for all of them? It is rarely clear the exact quantity of each drug so it is very difficult to know how to priorize this.
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Pages in category "Overdose"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- Acetaminophen (tylenol, paracematol), overdose/toxicity
- Anesthetic gas, overdose/toxicity
- Anti-arrhythmic, overdose/toxicity
- Antibiotic/antimicrobial, overdose/toxicity
- Anticoagulant, overdose/toxicity
- Antidepressant drug NOS, overdose/toxicity
- Antineoplastic/chemotherapy or immunosuppressive drugs, overdose/toxicity
- Antiseizure drug NOS, overdose/toxicity
- Aspirin or other salicylate or NSAID, overdose/toxicity