Hello, residents. My name is Mike Estefan, and I thank you for joining me on this month's deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship podcast.

This month's episode is going to cover Soliculate toxicity.

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and now back to the episode. So let's dive in to Soliculate toxicity. First, we'll go into a

general overview and discuss the pathophysiology. Then we'll dive into the clinical presentation,

the lab abnormalities, and finally discuss the treatment.

So solicilates are a group of chemicals used as the active ingredient in many different medications

and supplements. The most common source of solicilates that we'll see is aspirin, but it's also

found in peptobismal, it's found in

ecterine migraine, in bengay cream, and is even found in very high concentrations in oil

of wintergreen. Most cases of acute solacillate toxicity are from intentional overdose,

but accidental overdose and unintentional chronic

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