A 49-year old lady presents to a rural Australian hospital with paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity. Can you predict whether she is likely to need liver transplantation (and therefore urgent aeromedical retrieval)?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 044
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Challenging medical trivia to tickle your cerebellar tonsils and whimsy your way to cerebral hibernation for the weekend
Paracetamol/ Acetaminophen Overdose
September 4, 2010 By 4 Comments
A sneak peak at this month’s review from EBMedicine’s Emergency Medicine Practice: An Evidence-Based Approach to Acetaminophen (paracetamol, APAP) Overdose.
A Cure for Hurt Feelings
July 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
In response to concern (baseless) that the recent uncovering of the Society for the Prevention of Surgery was in some way meant to discredit the invaluable work of our Anaesthetic colleagues, Professor Staghorn and the Board of UCEM have undertaken and exhaustive search of the literature
Paracetamol… Too much, too often?
March 10, 2009 By 3 Comments
You are called by a doctor in a remote hospital asking for advice. The doctor is concerned about the risk of hepatotoxicity from repeated supratherapeutic ingestion (RSI) of paracetamol in the following patient:
A 46 year old male (75 kg) with 2 days of low back pain. He has self-medicated with a total of 10g of paracetamol over the past 48 hours:
