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