Bath salts (not the kind you put in the tub) and synthetic marijuana – agitated delirium, kidney failure, and death. The new drugs of abuse come with a high cost. Direct Download Leon Gussow from The Poison Review blog joins ERcast to give the low down on Bath Salts and Synthetic Marijuana. Links The Poison [...]
Can Ambien Kill You?
March 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
An article published Feb 27, 2012 in the British Medical Journal titled Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study is something we should know about for a few reasons. First, many of us take some form of sedative hypnotic before night shifts and second, it’s been in the news. Your patients are [...]
The Death Tell
March 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
How do we deliver the news of death? It ain’t easy, but it can be done well. Stuart Swadron from EMRAP joins us for a discussion.