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When a patient takes a toxic dose of a substance.
What is an overdose?
About 80% of poisoning is by this route.
Ingestion.
Leaving a car running in an enclosed garage can cause
What is carbon monoxide poisoning
Most severe form of toxin ingestion is
This is a powerful CNS depressant
What is alcohol
The misuse of any substance to produce a desired effect.
What is substance abuse?
This medication binds to specific toxins and prevents their absorption by the body. The toxins are then carried out of the body by the stool.
This medication is not indicated for patients who have ingested: alkali poisons, cyanide, ethanol, iron, lithium, methanol, mineral acids, or organic solvents.
What is Activated Charcoal
The classic hallucinogen.
What is LSD
Highly toxic colorless and flammable gas with a distinctive rotten egg color
What is hydrogen sulfide
The study of toxic or poisonous substances.
Over time, a person who routinely misuses a substance may need increasing amounts of it to achieve the same result
What is a Tolerance
When is Narcan administered?
When patient has overdosed on an opioid and they have respiratory depression.
Bath salts can last as long as:
48 hours
Chemical in marijuana that produces the "high"
THC
Any substance whose chemical action can damage body structures or impair body function.
What is a Poison?
Use the mneumonic DUMBELS to remember the signs and symptoms of this type of drug poisoning.
What is cholinergic.
These are CNS depressants, alter the level of consciousness, easy to obtain, and are relatively cheap
What are barbituates and benzodiazepines?
The patient will be "hot as a hare, blind as a bat, dry as a bone, red as a beet, and mad as a batter if they ingested too much of this medication.
What is an anticholinergic?
What is food poisoning
A poisonous substance produced by bacteria, animals, or plants that acts by changing the normal metabolism of the cells or destroying them.
What is a toxin?
Patients can experience these symptoms with this hallucinogen: hypertension, tachycardia, anxiety, paranoia
LSD
Patients withdrawing from this may be characterized by agitation, restlessness, fever, sweating, tremors, confusion, disorientation, delusions, hallucinations, and seizures.
What is alcohol?
Routes Narcan can be given
What are IN, IV, IM
Sympathomimetics do what to the body?
What is hypertension, tachycardia, dilated pupils.