Toxidromes : Simple edition
Toxidromes are syndromes that patients experience when they overdose on certain class of medications. There are always typical signs and symptoms the patients experience you should look out for even when the patient could not tell you what they ingested. The treatment for toxidromes are requires some reading and it is imperative that you know the doses and when to start/stop treatment. Usually you would need to administer an antagonist drug to "go against" the overwhelming effect of the drug being overdosed. There are also drugs that could bind and remove the poison to be excreted or metabolised in the kidneys or liver. Here is a summary of what I have complied to simplify understanding regarding these syndromes. You will have to read further to understand the treatment. Explanation 1. You will just need to know if the patient's PUPILS are dilated or constricted. A dilated pupil will correlate with heightened vital signs and vice versa, hence the vital signs are
