Acute poisoning emergencies: Resolving the gastric decontamination controversy: Postgraduate Medicine: Vol 91, No 2

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Your patient has swallowed a handful of pills. What should you do? Use adsorbents? Emesis? Lavage? Cathartics? All of these? On what factors do you base your decision? Drs Krenzelok and Dunmire answer these questions while presenting an approach to poisoning emergencies that does not require identification of the toxin before start of treatment.

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