Overdose/poisoning drug of choice.

[sas5814]

This was in the morning news and it interested me only for the choice of poison... Colchicine.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poison-specialist-connor-bowman-charged-fatally-poisoning-wife-betty-bowman-minnesota/

 

It made me think of interesting choices people made in ODs and poisonings. I remember, when I was in my clinical rotations, a guy that tried to kill himself with pyridium and he very nearly succeeded. It destroys your kidneys in an OD. Turns out the treatment at the time was IV methylene blue. So he went pumpkin from pyridium and then we Smurfed him up with IV blue. He stayed in the ICU for several days and ultimately survived but, the last time I saw him before discharge, had a blue tinge to him.

[sk732]

Had a brutal glyburide overdose one time...we were mainlining D50W q 15 min to keep BG > 2.5mmol's and had no octreotide...ran out of dextrose, so we had to steal from EMS to get to the tertiary ICU.