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Acetaminophen Overdose (Deep Dive R24)

EM Clerkship

Zack Olson, MD ; Mike Estephan, MD ; Maddie Watts, MD

Education, Science, Life Sciences, Courses, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5795 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Acetaminophen Overdose & Toxicology Pearls History: Figure out how much was taken, what time the ingestion occurred, and if any other toxins were ingested Physical Exam: Perform a regular physical exam, and in addition, perform the toxicologic physical exam! Check pupil size Assess neuromuscular status for rigidity/clonus Perform the “toxicologist handshake” Listen to bowel sounds […]

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0:00.0

Hello, students. My name is Mike Estefan, and I thank you for joining me today on this

0:06.2

month's deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship podcast. Today's episode is going to be covering

0:13.1

acetaminopin overdose, as well as a general approach to the toxicology physical exam.

0:18.9

Before we begin the content, I have two important things I need to tell

0:22.9

you guys about. The first is regarding our recent string of technical difficulties. In the span of the last

0:29.3

two, two and a half weeks, our website has crashed twice, and we've also been hacked. Like, what the

0:34.6

heck? Who hacks EM clerkship? Anyways, all of this nonsense have resulted in

0:41.5

multiple delays in the release of our content, which usually occur on the first and the 15th of

0:46.7

every month. So, as of today, everything should be functioning normally at this time.

0:53.2

However, you may come across some strange

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advertisements if you try to Google our website. We are working with Google to remove these search

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results, but it could take some time, so please bear with us. The second thing I want to discuss

1:06.6

is just a word from our sponsors, Pearson Rabbit's disability insurance. I know we keep belaboring

1:12.3

this point, but own occupation disability insurance is incredibly important. In fact, just last

1:19.0

week, I was reviewing my significant others disability insurance policy. She works as a physician

1:24.6

in pediatric gastroenterology, which is somewhat of a procedurally

1:28.7

heavy subspecialty.

1:30.7

We discovered that the disability insurance that she had signed up for as a resident did

1:35.8

not include own occupation disability.

1:39.3

What this means practically is that if she were to become injured to the point where she

1:43.6

could no longer perform

1:44.7

procedures such as endoscopies and colonoscopies, her disability insurance would likely not

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