Toxicology framework
- Resuscitation
- A - control the airway
- B - maintain normoxia
- C - establish access resuscitate with fluids/vasopressors
- D - Seizure control (not phenytoin - it is contraindicated) and correction of hypoglycaemia
- E - Correction of hypothermia and electrolyte abnormalities
- Rescue antidotes
- Risk assessment
- Supportive care and monitoring
- Investigations
- screening (ECG, paracetamol)
- Specific (eg. drug levels, CK)
- Decontamination
- Enhanced elimination
- Antidotes
- Disposition