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What are the symptoms of lithium toxicity?
"oversedation, confusion, incoordination, seizure, and coma" (Preston, O'Neal, & Talaga, 2008, p. 222).
What is the antidote of benzodiazpines?
Flumazenil is a benzodiazepine antagonist that is infrequently used to reverse oversedation during procedural sedation when benzodiazepines are used. It should not be used in overdose situations, as it will cause seizures.
Is taking 3 oxycodone 40 mg tabs at once a bad thing?
It's a potentially dangerous dose, in that gait instability, falls, head injuries, decreased level of consciousness, oversedation and confusion may occur, among others.
How long after taking 1mg of Ativan is it safe to have a few beers.. Especially if you only take the Ativan on an as needed basis and not daily?
Alcohol intensifies the effect of benzodiazepines (such as Ativan, Xanax & Klonopin). This can lead to oversedation, incoordination, slurring of speech, and increased risk of falls and accidents.
What are the effects of drinking alcohol if you have taken Valium?
Potentially, excessive sedation or oversedation may occur. With large quantities of alcohol, taken with benzodiazepine medications (such as Valium), loss of consciousness, coma and even death could occur. In sum, alcohol in combination with benzodiazepine medications can be quite dangerous.
Can you take Percocet while breastfeeding?
Percocet is a narcotic. It is indeed excreted in human breast milk. That means your baby is being dosed with narcotic every time you breastfeed. This could lead to a decreased feeding reflex in your baby. He/she might display a loss of interest in feeding and become cranky with crying when the narcotic is not ingested: withdrawal symptoms, in other words. Narcotics will also disrupt the baby's sleeping patterns and can cause gastrointestinal (stomach) problems for your baby. There's also a chance of oversedation with decreased breathing rate. If you must use percocet, bottle feed your baby.
Can you take ambien and Xanax with Benadryl?
Generally, I would not advise it because of the double sedative effect that could occur. Benadryl which is OTC (over the counter) is commonly used as an anti-histamine. Ambien (a prescription) is used specifically for bed-time rest. However, they can be used together. Senior citizens, people with respiratory issues and the physically handicapped should be monitored from time to time while using these products, especially simultaneously. - i definitely wouldn't. A friend of mine passed away from it
What happens when a person takes two Darvocet pills instead of one?
Darvocet was pulled off the market for a reason. If you happen to find a few in your medicine cabinet that you had forgotten about it is probably best to throw them out. They don't work much better than aspirin, yet they seem to have all the side effects of a typical weak opiate; constipation, miosis (tiny pupils), euphoria (feeling good) and nausea and vomiting are just a few. Taking two tablets will make all of the above, plus some lovely side effects not listed, twice as bad. Darvocet are addictive, so taking Two tablets (of any habit forming drug) is probably a bad idea. Darvocet also tends to screw with your heart rhythm. or rather, your body breaks down darvocet into a chemical that is similar to lidocaine (the kind they use in the E.R. to sort of jump start your heart). Taking two Darvocet means your body is making twice that amount of metabolites that mess with your heart. so, all that being said, taking two Darvocet will increase whatever the user is looking for: pain relief, sedation, euphoria, etc.. But, is it worth the risk of heart attack, or at the very least oversedation, for a pill that doesnt do much better than asprin?
What is J point in ECG?
From American Heart Association www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/98/18/1937 The J point in the ECG is the point where the QRS complex joins the ST segment. It represents the approximate end of depolarization and the beginning of repolarization as determined by the surface ECG. There is an overlap of 10 milliseconds. The J point may deviate from the baseline in early repolarization, epicardial or endocardial ischemia or injury, pericarditis, right or left bundle-branch block, right or left ventricular hypertrophy, or digitalis effect. The term J deflection has been used to designate the formation of the wave produced when there is a large, prominent deviation of the J point from the baseline. The J deflection has been called many names, including camel-hump sign, late delta wave, J-point wave, and Osborn wave. The prominent J deflection attributed to hypothermia was first reported in 1938 by Tomaszewski. The wave was observed by others, including Kossmann,Grosse-Brockhoff and Schoedel, Bigelow et al, Juvenelle et al, and Osborn. Over the years, the unusual wave increasingly has been called an Osborn wave (Figure 4B ), probably because of Osborn's excellent article written in 1953. Clinicians labeled the deflection an Osborn wave in honor of Osborn, one of the first American Heart Association research fellows. Much has been written about the abnormal J deflection observed in patients with hypercalcemia. Other conditions have been reported to cause an abnormal J deflection, including brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, damage to sympathetic nerves in the neck, and cardiopulmonary arrest from oversedation. Brugada and Brugada reported patients with right bundle-branch block who exhibited noncoronary ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads and experienced ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. A controversy now surrounds this condition because not all of the tracings show classic right bundle-branch block, and some patients might have arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. All J-wave deflections do not look alike. Some are merely elevations of ST segments in leads V1 and V2, whereas others are of the spike-and-dome variety. This leads to the conclusion that different mechanisms may be responsible for the size and shape of J-wave deflections.
