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Successful Management of Intentional Amlodipine Poisoning: A Survival Experience of Health Care Worker
Author(s) -
Gupta Chaitanya,
Amitabh Satsangi,
Nath Gupta Prashant
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.46619/joh.2020.1-1001
Subject(s) - amlodipine , medicine , blood pressure , vascular resistance , calcium channel , anesthesia , calcium , intensive care medicine
Amlodipine is a calcium channel blockers and belongs to class Dihydropyridines and used to reduce systemic vascular resistance and arterial pressure. Nevertheless, they remain the major case of cardiovascular drug overdose that often leads to lethal outcome. We report the case of intoxication with Amlodipine. This caused severe hypotension, in young health care worker. Patient was initially treated in our ICU with leg and elevation, fluids, calcium gluconate, noradrenaline, glucagon.

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