The 44th International Congress of the European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists 2024 abstracts are here! Check them out:

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This letter-to-the-editor describes two patients who had unknowingly consumed dipentylone, a novel synthetic cathinone
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A 45-year-old male presented to the emergency department after envenomation by his pet Trimeresurus insularis and was treated with Thai green pit viper antivenom with improvement in pain scores and swelling. At follow up, patient had no complications.

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A 31-year-old man had a 'single sip' of an unknown substance from a container labeled as a green tea beverage and experienced a cardiac arrest.

The substance was later revealed to be a rust remover containing hydrofluoric acid.

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A 37-year-old woman inserted and broke a mercury thermometer in her left ear and experienced ototoxicity from direct inner ear exposure to mercury

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A 40-year-old man ingested an unknown amount of paramao root oil and experienced salicylate toxicity.

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A 47-year-old woman was found to have toxic epidermal necrolysis associated with the use of levetiracetam.

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A 47-year-old man presented with chest pain, blurred vision and metabolic acidosis. The patient works in a factory with methyl acetate.

He was presumably poisoned by inhalational/dermal exposure to methyl acetate which is metabolized to methanol.

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A 45-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain after deliberate ingestion of polyurethane foam. Moulded casts of the stomach and esophagus were extracted.

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Self-medication most commonly occurred in women aged 20-29 and was most commonly performed with anxiolytics and analgesics

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This study found a temporal relationship between peak Google Trends searches for social media ingestion challenges and ingestions of corresponding substances reported to US poison centers.

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Benzodiazepine-involved suicide attempts and other intentional misuse cases reported to United States poison centers have decreased in recent years, but the likelihood of major medical effect/death among these cases have increased.

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Orphenadrine overdoses up to 10 grams were associated with antimuscarinic toxicity and sedation but not severe cardiotoxicity

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The implementation of a medical toxicology service was associated with a decrease in the number of errors in the management of paracetamol overdose.

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Using the Trail Making Test assessment, this study found that patients who had sedative drug overdoses may have significant cognitive deficits even when medically cleared.

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In this observational study of patients with scorpionism, point-of-care ultrasound was able to identify early signs of pulmonary congestion and heart failure.
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In this commentary, Zwaag et al emphasizes the importance of predicting outcomes in poisoned patients and proposing the use of advanced methodologies like machine learning to enhance prediction models and improve patient care.

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Association of peak Google searches for 'challenges' (brown line) and national Poison Center cases for toxicity from that 'challenge' (blue lines)
Oregon Poison Center PDX EM Residency Adrienne Hughes Clinical Toxicology Robert Hendrickson

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Three cases of semaglutide overdose with nonspecific but often prolonged GI symptoms

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The importance of radiographs in the evaluation of heated tobacco stick ingestion by young children

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