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Acute Alcohol & Toxic-Alcohol Poisoning — Pathway · case challenge

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Case #1Emergency / Toxicology

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Ethanol or toxic alcoholSuspected toxic alcohol (methanol/ethylene glycol)

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Step 1 / 1 · Ethanol or toxic alcohol

Plain ethanol, or suspected toxic alcohol (methanol/ethylene glycol)?

💡 Ethanol intoxication: dysarthria, ataxia, drowsiness to coma; high levels can cause respiratory depression, aspiration, hypoglycemia. Clues to toxic alcohol: high-anion-gap metabolic acidosis + raised osmolar gap (>10–25); methanol → visual disturbance/blindness, ethylene glycol → renal injury/calcium oxalate crystals.

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