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Chapter 44 - Multidrug Overdose

A Practical Guide to Stabilisation and Transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Nav Somasinghe  and
Joanne Perkins
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A previously fit and well 13-year-old girl was referred to the paediatric retrieval service for transfer and request for admission to PICU. She had been found collapsed by police approximately 4 hours after she had messaged a friend saying she was suicidal. Her friend raised the alarm to her parents and subsequently to the police. The friend was able to identify her location by her phone for the police. The child had taken a deliberate mixed overdose of her father’s antihypertensive medication. She has no history of mental health problems and the current situation was felt to be due to school stressors (potential bullying and academic pressure).

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 243 - 247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: www.chop.edu.Google Scholar
National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) UK number: 0344 892 0111. www.npis.org.Google Scholar
www.toxbase.org – online resource primary toxicology database of the NPIS.Google Scholar

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