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Alcohol Pharmacology and Toxicology

#Alcohol #Cessation #Pharmacology #etoh #toxicology #medications #management
Alcohol Pharmacology ... and Toxicology ... #Pharmacology # ... etoh #toxicology ... #medications #management
Pharmacology, Toxicity and Management of Second Generation Antipsychotic (SGA) Overdose #Diagnosis #Management #Toxicology #Psychiatry #SGA #SecondGenerationAntipsychotics
Pharmacology, Toxicity ... and Management ... SGA) Overdose #Diagnosis ... #Management #Toxicology
Potassium Channel Blockers - Medications
1. Cardiovascular Drugs
2. Psychiatric drugs
3. Other drugs
4. Synthetic opioids: Levomethadyl 
5. Opium
Channel Blockers - Medications ... ChannelBlockers #Medications ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Pharmacology # ... Toxicology
Toxic Alcohol Ingestion: Isopropyl Alcohol
General concepts for toxic alcohols:
• Parent compounds (not metabolites) cause high osmolal
Toxic Alcohol Ingestion ... : Isopropyl Alcohol ... lactic acidosis #Diagnosis ... #Management #Toxicology ... #Isopropyl #Alcohol
Stress Dose Steroids - Indications and Dosing

SUPPRESSED HPA AXIS:
 prednisone >20mg/day x 3 weeks or more
Dose Steroids - Indications ... StressDose #Steroids #Indications ... Endocrinology #Diagnosis ... #Management #Pharmacology
Common sodium channel blockers which cause QRS widening.

Anticonvulsants: 
 - Carbamazepine 
Antidysrhythmics:  
 - Group
widening #ECG #EKG #Pharmacology ... #Medications #Toxicology ... #Diagnosis #Differential
Pearls for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

First-line pharmacotherapies for moderate to severe AUD include naltrexone and
for Treatment of Alcohol ... psychaedelics #Alcohol ... #UseDisorder #Management ... Screening #Addiction #Medications ... #Pharmacology
Shock - Differential Diagnosis by Classification
Reflex Syncope 
 - Vasovagal syncope
   • Prolonged standing
- Differential Diagnosis ... stress • Blood draw ... depletion - Medication ... steal syndrome - Alcohol ... blackout - Medication
Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) - Toxicology

Clinical presentation
 - Symptoms of GHB toxicity include: short term anterograde amnesia,
hydroxybutyrate (GHB) - Toxicology ... Hydroxybutyrate #GHB #Toxicology ... #Toxicity #Diagnosis ... #Management #Pharmacology
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
Redistribution:
 - IV glucose
 - Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis
 - IV hyperalimentation
 - Refeeding
intoxication - Alcohol ... Hypomagnesemia #Causes #diagnosis ... #differential #medications ... #drugs #pharmacology