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Severe Oxprenolol Poisoning: The Importance of Glucagon Infusion

Department of Medicine, Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland

P. O'Leary

Department of Medicine, Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland

M.G. Molloy

Department of Medicine, Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland

We describe a case of severe oxprenolol poisoning (8 g overdose) where restoration of normal blood pressure depended critically on high-dose glucagon infusion after several bolus injections of glucagon had failed. We stress the importance of infusion delivery of glucagon in severe beta-blocker poisoning.

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 101-103 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/096032719000900208


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