Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.

EM cases is part of SREMI, Schwartz-Risman Emergency Medicine Institute, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving EM care through research

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A whopping one billion doses of acetaminopin, or paracetamol, as it's called in some countries,

are taken safely each year. But with that much

acetaminopin being ingested, it's no surprise that about 10,000 people in Canada every year

overdose on it. Some acetaminopin overdoses are easy to diagnose and relatively straightforward to

manage in the ED, but there are many points along the way of taking care of

these patients where pitfalls can rear their ugly heads leading to less than ideal outcomes.

And that's what this episode is going to be about. So pitfalls in the recognition and management

of acetaminifin poisoning. We're hoping that by the end of this episode, you'll recognize

all the places where it's easy to trip up in managing

these patients and provide stellar care for your next acetaminopin overdose patient.

And I'm so happy to have back on the show, our go-to-em-toxicologists.

You've likely heard many times before on EM cases, my personal favorite being episode 90

on low and slow poisoning. The wonderful doctor is Emily Austin and

Dr. Margaret Thompson, who work at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and at the Ontario Poison Center.

At the Poison Center, they help docs like you and I manage hundreds of talks patients a year.

Welcome back and thanks so much for coming on the show and sharing your blinding brilliance with us.

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