Poisoning; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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Is There a Treatment for Paracetamol?
Simon: I think sometimes we can feel a little bit on the back foot and a little bit sort of disempowered by these presentations because you come to assume that you're going to be able to identify something. So yes, Alan, I think that's really interesting about that sort of delayed presentation. And I think the serum testing of paracetamol is a pretty unique circumstance in poisoning where it makes such a big difference what those blood levels show. But why this is important is to do with the treatment and I'm going to try my best to explain a little bit about what treatment is and how it works. Treatment comes in the form of N acetyl cysteine or N
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