Toxicology

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Anxiolytic medications

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anti-anxiety drugs • pneumonic: zine-pine-mine & ram-pam-lam* • throazine, chlorpromazine, benzodiazepine, clomipramine • lorazepam, alprazolam, citalopram • haldol • tranquilizers (librium and valium)

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Which medications causes falls in the elderly?

Back (Answer)

tranquilizers (librium and valium)

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What is the largest side effect cascade from anxiolytic medications?

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shizo => wander => pill rolling tremor => tardive dyskinesia (excessive mouth and lip movements)

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Blood thinners

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• pneumonic: in’s thins the blood* • herapin • warfarin • coumadin • aspirin • vitamin C & E • Dicumarol

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Blood thinner concerns

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• internal hemorrhage - avoid vitamin K

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Mushrooms

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• psilocybin: hallucinogenic - muscarine: poison

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Sedative/hypnotic drugs

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Barbiturate: sleeping pills, respiratory depressant, miosis (miosis = turning off sympathetics)

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If a patient has dilated pupils, how is the ANS involved?

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overstimulated sympathetics

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If a patient has constricted pupils, how is the ANS involved?

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understimulated sympathetics

#10

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Poisons

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• organophosphates - (insecticide), blocks cholinesterase, causes runny eyes and nose • — salivate, lacrimate, urinate, defecate = SLUD

#11

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What is the antidote for organophosphates and carbamates?

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atropine- too much causes dry eyes, nose, and mouth

#12

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Most common gas poisoning?

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Carbon monoxide - motors, cars, cigarettes

#13

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What are the two nitrogen based gas poisonings?

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nitrogen oxide - cigarettes and plants nitrous oxide - anesthetic (dentist)

#14

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Anabolic steroids

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• cause liver damage - early epiphyseal plate closure in children

#15

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Carbon tetrachloride and chloroform

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• causes acute liver failure (even if inhaled)

#16

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Lead

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batteries, paint, solder, pottery glaze, rubber, plastic toys, jewlery, dust in shooting galleries

#17

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Acute lead poisoning

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• metallic taste, abdominal pain, black stools, oliguria, collapse, coma

#18

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chronic lead poisoning

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• weight loss, fatigue, headache (encephalopathy), lead lines on gums (blue), anemia, irritable, vomiting, basophilic stippling, nerve tissue damage

#19

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Treatment for lead poisioning

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EDTA

#20

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Mercury

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crayons, toys, paint

#21

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Petroleum distillates

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Ipecac treatment**

#22

Front (Question)

Electroshock is used for

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dysthymia

#23

Front (Question)

Depression drugs

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• monamine oxide inhibitors (MAO): prevent breakdown of neurotransmitters, increase availability of synapses, certain foods cause hypertension • tricyclics (Elavil) • prozac - inhibits serotonin uptake (SSRI’s) • lithium carbonate: manic depression

#24

Front (Question)

What categories of antidepressants take 6 months to fully work?

Back (Answer)

MAO (monoamine oxide inhibitors) and tricyclics