Images in emergency medicine
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Figure 1.
Gross lung appearance-geographic contamination with charcoal.
Figure 2.
Bronchioles.
Figure 3.
Alveoli. Used with permission of Jason B. Hack, MD, Brody School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
[Ann Emerg Med. 2006;48:522.]
An 87-year-old man with an advance directive of do not resuscitate (DNR) presented to the emergency department 4 hours after an intentional, single-drug, oral ingestion of 45 temazepam tablets. He was sleepy but arousable on admission. Orogastrointestinal lavage was performed, followed by 75 g of activated charcoal instillation. Two hours later, his respiratory status deteriorated, his DNR order was followed, and he died.
PII: S0196-0644(06)00240-X
doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.02.006
© 2006 American College of Emergency Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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