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Firecracker Flashcards

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How to manage heat stroke?

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Rapid cooling via submersion or tepid water and fans, IV fluids

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How to treat polymorphic ventricular tachycardia?

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Defibrillation, similar to ventricular fibrillation

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Signs of mercury poisoning?

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Pneumonitis, intention tremor, excitability

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How to treat opiot withdrawal?

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Methadone, an opiod agonist

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Signs of opiod withdrawal?

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Flu-like presenation (rhinorrhea, lacrimation, yawning, poloerection, muscle arches), pupillary dilatation

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Spider with red hourglass on back? Bite treatment?

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Black widow spider (latrodectus)

Treatment: NSAIDS, benzos for significant muscle stiffness

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