A Trust-wide retrospective audit of patient clinical records, where the presenting condition code used by the clinician in attendance was deliberate or accidental overdose (excluding alcohol in...
A search strategy was undertaken of medical and nursing databases including Medline, Cinahl, Embase, Psychinfo, the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, together with the British Medical Journal...
Paramedics were called to an unconscious 40-year-old-male, who was presumed to have taken an overdose of a presently unknown substance. On arrival, the patient was found responsive to pain only. His...
A 42-year-old gentleman called 999 after taking an insulin overdose. On arrival at his house, paramedics found him ambulant and conversant, but confused (Glasgow coma scale (GCS) 14/15; Eyes 4/4;...
At 23:05 pm, a 911 call was placed from a private residence requesting an ambulance for a possible overdose. An advanced life support (ALS) unit was dispatched at 23:06 pm as an urgent request and...
A 32-year-old male presented to paramedics approximately one hour following an intentional overdose of propranolol. Patient history and evidence on scene indicated ingestion of 2.4 g (sixty 40 mg...
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