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EM Clerkship

Beta Blocker Overdose (Deep Dive R19)

EM Clerkship

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

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

5795 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

“The Brady Bunch” – Beta-Blockers, Calcium Channel Blockers, Digoxin, Clonidine Treatment of Beta Blocker OD Activated Charcoal – Only if ingestion time was <1 hour ago, and only if patient is protecting their airway (or intubated).   2. Glucagon – the best answer for the exam, unlikely to work in real life 3. Epinephrine Drip […]

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0:00.0

Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson and thank you for downloading this episode of the EM Clerkship podcast. It is good to be back.

0:09.3

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0:27.9

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0:34.0

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0:36.5

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1:08.0

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1:08.7

Don't wait until it's too late and something happens.

1:11.7

Now, on to our deep dive for the month.

1:14.9

In the last case, and it was a brutal case, much, much props to Mike for sticking with me.

1:20.0

That's a hard one.

1:21.4

But this beta blocker overdose falls into a classic category of toxicology called

1:26.9

the Brady Bunch or the Low and Slows.

1:29.6

This is a group of extremely high yield and dangerous overdoses that present with bradacardia

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