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Management of acute beta blocker/calcium channel blocker overdose

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of acute beta blocker ... calcium channel blocker ... #BetaBlocker #CCB
Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose Overview - Joshua Feblowitz, MD 

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Calcium Channel Blocker ... Management #Toxicology #CCB
Outpatient Hypertension Management Algorithm
Monotherapy: 
 • Thiazide/thiazide-like 
 • ACE-I (non-black patients), 
 • ARB
• ARB • CCB ... acting) • β-blocker ... : • ACE-I + CCB ... • ARB + CCB
Amlodipine - calcium channel blocker for the treatment of hypertension and CAD. 5th most prescribed drug
calcium channel blocker ... CalciumChannelBlocker #CCB
Calcium Channel Blocker Conversion Table

Nifedipine versus amlodipine - Nifedipine XL used only as the short acting
Calcium Channel Blocker ... tachycardia #CCB
Atrial Fibrillation Overview

Symptoms:
Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
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Rate Control • β-Blocker ... • CCB • Digoxin
Atrial Fibrillation RVR - Medications
Diltiazem
 • Preferred in patients with chronic lung such as Asthma and
• Long-term β-blocker ... patient survival (CCB ... thus starting a β-blocker ... will tolerate a β-blocker ... whom IV BB or IV CCB
Beta-Blocker Overdose/toxicity:

•	Bradycardia & hypotension (most common).
•	Myocardial depression & cardiogenic shock (severe overdoses). 
•	Ventricular dysrhythmias (Common with
Beta-Blocker Overdose ... Co-ingestions of CCB ... labetalol) #Beta-Blocker
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management

Regular SVT: Sinus Tachycardia, AVNRT, AVRT, Atrial Flutter,
Normotensive: Beta-Blocker ... (Metoprolol), CCB
3 Minute EM Pearls: Beta-Blocker Poisoning

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EM Pearls: Beta-Blocker ... BetaBlocker #Beta #Blocker