1. Case 22-2012.
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Cabot, Richard C., Harris, Nancy Lee, Shepard, Jo-Anne O., Rosenberg, Eric S., Cort, Alice M., Ebeling, Sally H., Peters, Christine C., Macías Konstantopoulos, Wendy, Burns Ewald, Michele, and Pratt, Daniel S.
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ANTIMONY , *TARTAR emetic , *NAUSEA , *VOMITING , *DIARRHEA , *POISON control centers , *ACTIVATED carbon , *CHELATING agents - Abstract
The article discusses a case of a 34-year-old man diagnosed with antimony poisoning due to ingestion of antimony potassium tartrate or tartar emetic. The patients experienced nausea and had over 50 episodes of vomiting, as well as diarrhea. The poison control center recommended continuous cardiac monitoring and serial ECGS, serial measurement of potassium levels, administration of activated charcoal and chelatin therapy with dimercaprol.
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- 2012
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