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a 4 year old male child was brought to the ER with complaints of having consumed tablets of an unknown medicine.on examination, patient was pale, apprehensive, febrile,and dehydrated. he has voimted a couple of times in the house after ingestion of tablets.child is gradually getting lethargic, and suddenly developed a seizure.what is the most common cause of poisioning in USA?
A. ASPIRIN
B.ACETAMINOPHEN
C.AMPHETAMINE
D.IMIPRAMINE
E.DIAZEPAM
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| alice8
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A. ASPIRIN :?:
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| meg
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Aspirin, but why would the child be febrile if aspiring was taken and there was GI hemorrhage?
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| vyseerx
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LOOK FOR WHAT QUESTION IS ASKING. IT CANT BE SIMPLER THAN THIS. vignette descirbes a poisoning, and in the end , slips in the question, which is the most common poisoning in USA? just recall, yaar!
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| vyseerx
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aspirin is correct
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| meg
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can aspiring poisoning cause febrile? Ok! I think I now get it, it is an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation... generates heat instead of ATP?lactic acidosis... probably that is why this antipyretic is causing pyrexia!
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