Ep 180 Acetaminophen Poisoning – Pitfalls in Assessment and Management
Emergency Medicine Cases
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Acute Ingestion
Anton: What a massive ingestion is, and let's say specifically just in terms of the number of tablets taken, is tough. We don't really know this. But what we know with NAC is that if we get NAC started within about eight hours of a single acute ingestion in general, people do great. And so there aren't a lot of scenarios when somebody is able to talk to us that I wouldn't recommend necessarily getting a level within eight hours and making treatment decisions there.
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