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Salicylate (Aspirin) Poisoning — Management Pathway · case challenge

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Case #1Emergency / Toxicology

📋 Case data

Salicylate poisoning?Low suspicion

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Step 1 / 1 · Salicylate poisoning?

Suspected salicylate/aspirin poisoning (mixed acid-base)?

💡 Toxic dose ≥150 mg/kg. Classic mixed acid-base: respiratory alkalosis + high-anion-gap metabolic acidosis. Early tinnitus, nausea/vomiting, hyperventilation, tachycardia; late altered mentation, seizures, hyperthermia, cerebral/pulmonary edema. No specific antidote. Check blood gas, anion gap, electrolytes, glucose, serial salicylate levels.

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