Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10217187 | The American Journal of Emergency Medicine | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Acute, unintentional drug-related poisonings lead to an estimated 418,313 ED visits in 2014, according to the latest statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. While most of these were opiate-related poisonings, anticoagulant rodenticides were the most common cause of rodenticide-related poisoning in the United States. Many clinical syndromes and treatment algorithms have been described for patients with anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning. We report a case of an acute ingestion of two anticoagulant rodenticides and successful reversal of coagulation parameters using 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate in a fixed-dose approach.
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Authors
Richard J. Doyle, Zane Elfessi, Kevin Kolman,