- History - patient relative
- Agent
- Dose
- Time of ingestion
Examination
- Vital signs
- Neurological - tone, clonus, reactive pupils
- Abdomen - bowel sounds
- Skin changes
- Urinary retention
- Clinical syndromes
Anticholinergic syndrome
- Delirium with mumbling speech, tachycardia, dry, flushed skin,
Cholinergic syndrome
- Muscurinic effect - diarrhoea, urination, miosis, bronchospasm, emesis
- Nicotinic effect - mydriasis, tachycardia, weankess, hypertension, fasciculation, sweating
- CNS effect - drowsy, delirium, confusion, coma, seizure
Sympathomimetics Syndrome
- Causes amphetamine, ecstacy
Delusions, paranoia, tachycardia, tachypnoiec, pyrexia, piloerection
Cold and clammy with low saturation
Catecholamine induced cardiomyopathy
Chest X-ray pulmonary oedema
Opioid, sedatives or ethanol intoxication