Question

A 40-year-old woman presents after ingesting an unknown number of tricyclic antidepressant tablets. She is drowsy and her ECG shows QRS duration 140 ms with ventricular ectopy. What is the most appropriate specific antidotal treatment?

Accepted Answer

Intravenous sodium bicarbonate boluses

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Intravenous magnesium sulfate

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Intravenous calcium gluconate

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Haemodialysis

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Intravenous lipid emulsion only

Practice question

A 40-year-old woman presents after ingesting an unknown number of tricyclic antidepressant tablets. She is drowsy and her ECG shows QRS duration 140 ms with ventricular ectopy. What is the most appropriate specific antidotal treatment?