A 30-year-old 90 kg woman presents after a mixed overdose including Panadeine Forte, carbamazepine and temazepam.
You are considering activated charcoal. She then becomes drowsy, tachycardic at 120 bpm and hypotensive at 85/43 mmHg. Further history suggests up to 9 g of carbamazepine ingestion. During management she has a generalised tonic-clonic seizure.
List four general contraindications to activated charcoal.
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List four investigations that should be performed in this patient.
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List five clinical features expected from significant carbamazepine overdose.
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List four conditions that should be excluded after the generalised tonic-clonic seizure.
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