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a poison puzzler…

November 22, 2012 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

23 year old female is bought to ED by her family after an intentional overdose of ~ 100 ‘diet tablets’ which she ingested 1.5-2 hours earlier.

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Filed Under: #FOAM, Interesting, Toxicology Tagged With: blood gas, caffeine, diet pills, methylxanthine, poison puzzler, toxicology

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