Anticholinergic Toxicity in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Audience

Emergency medicine residents, internal medicine residents, family medicine residents, community physicians, pediatricians, toxicology fellows.

Introduction

There are over 600 compounds which contain anticholinergic properties.1 Medications with anticholinergic properties include antihistamines, atropine, tricyclic antidepressants, antipsychotics, topical mydriatics, antispasmodics, sleep aids, and cold preparations. 1-4 Plants that possess anticholinergic properties such as jimson weed, and street drugs cut with anticholinergics such as scopolamine are sources of accidental or intentional ingestion.1,2,4 Anticholinergic toxicity can cause a myriad of signs and symptoms, including agitation, seizures, hyperthermia, cardiac dysrhythmias, and death. Since poisoning fro

SUBMITTER: McCoy CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332772 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature