Massive diphenhydramine poisoning resulting in a wide-complex tachycardia: successful treatment with sodium bicarbonate.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Diphenhydramine poisoning is characterized most often by anticholinergic effects. Cardiotoxicity and circulatory collapse have rarely been reported after massive ingestions of diphenhydramine and other H1-receptor-blocking agents, although these substances have local anesthetic properties and have been studied as antiarrhythmics. We report the case of a patient who developed a wide-complex tachycardia as a complication of acute diphenhydramine poisoning that responded to IV sodium bicarbonate.
Medical subject headings
- Alcohol Drinking
- Bicarbonates
- Diphenhydramine
- Poisoning
- Sodium
- Tachycardia