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National Case Conference - March 2024
1. A 50-year-old woman presents to the ED with fatigue, diarrhea, and vomiting and the following vital signs: BP, 95/65 mmHg; HR, 35/min (sinus). An inpatient workup is unrevealing and she improves clinically, but returns 2 days after discharge with chest pain, shortness of breath and allodynia of the hands. Her husband had a similar presentation 1 week prior to the first visit. 2. A 60-year-old man with a past medical history of obesity presents to the ED after ingesting a month's worth of his diltiazem and metoprolol. 3. A 26-year-old man is brought to the ED intubated after being found obtunded at home. Three days later, he is extubated and is noted to have auditory hallucinations.
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 53
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 52
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
National Case Conference - December 2023
1. A 16-year-old girl presents to the ED after overdosing on medications she takes for rheumatoid arthritis. In the ED she has lightheadedness and runs of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. 2. A 22-year-old man presents to the ED from prison after swallowing 50 bags of heroin and ten tablets of ecstasy. One hour after the ingestion, he is found unresponsive in his cell and requires naloxone. 3. A 66-year-old man presents to the ED with bilateral hand pain. He reports that earlier the same day he was cleaning coins at his home.
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 50
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
National Case Conference - October 2023
1. Two individuals separately purchase the same health supplement online. After the first use, they both presented to the hospital after reading the accompanying information. 2. A 49-year-old woman with pulmonary hypertension and AUD presents to the ED after a suicide attempt with her sildenafil and ambrisentan. 3. A 28-year-old man presents to the hospital for shortness of breath. He develops progressive hypoxia requiring high flow nasal cannula and his chest imaging is remarkable for diffuse ground glass opacities.
National Case Conference - September 2023
1. A 52-year-old woman with a complex past medical history presents to the ED for altered mental status and seizure-like activity. During her hospitalization, she has several cardiac arrests. 2. A 64-year-old man presents with multiple self-inflicted stab wounds, shock, and a possible history of ingestion. He is taken emergently to the operating room, where he develops persistent metabolic acidosis and has a brief cardiac arrest. 3. A 40-year-old male bodybuilder with a history of palpitations presents to the ED in respiratory distress with tachycardia, hypertension, tachypnea, and hypoxia.
Addiction Toxicology Case Conference - February 2023
Buprenorphine & Methadone Protocols from the Toxicology Team in Detroit
National Case Conference - April 2022
1. A 15-year-old boy, admitted for toxic encephalopathy after a polypharmacy ingestion, develops recurrence of symptoms after complete resolution. 2. An 11-year-old girl is admitted with arthralgia, morbilliform rash, and severe headache unresponsive to typical analgesics. She has difficult to control hypertension and has a seizure. Other family members also developed a similar rash. 3. A 42-year-old man with a history of chronic LBP is found by EMS to have ventricular tachycardia, for which he received IV lidocaine. After conversion, his vital signs are: BP,144/76; HR,44; RR, 20; O2, 96%; Temp, 98.2
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 34
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
National Grand Rounds - December 2021
Cardiac Glycosides Poisoning : How to Optimize Digoxin Antibody Use?
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 22
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
ACMT Highlights Tox-in-Ten: Episode 18
ACMT members Gillian Beauchamp, MD, and Elizabeth (Elissa) Moore, DO deliver evidence-based medical toxicology core content and trending topics in easily digestible bites. Visit toxinten.com and follow on Twitter @toxinten.
Addiction Toxicology Case Conference - June 2020
Alcohol Withdrawal During COVID19; Iatrogenic Dependence and Withdrawal; Struggles with IVDU-Associated Infective Endocarditis and treatments related to valve replacement
National Grand Rounds - October 2019
An Adolescent Male with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
National Grand Rounds - June 2019
Pharmacotherapy Considerations for Patients on ECMO
National Grand Rounds - April 2019
ECMO in the Acutely Poisoned Patient
National Journal Club - September 2018
This month's topic is Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and toxicology. The articles will be reviewed by the Albert Einstein Program in Medical Toxicology, led by Dr. Serge-Emile Simpson.
National Grand Rounds - August 2018
Cardiac Safety of Anti-Seizure and Anti-Depressant Drugs in Patients with Long QT Syndrome
National Grand Rounds - February 2018
Cardiac Risk and Methadone: Clinically Significant Relationship?
National Journal Club - January 2018
This month's topic is Azithromycin and Cardiac Toxicity. The articles will be reviewed by the U Mass Medical Toxicology Program, led by Dr. Mak Neavyn.