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- Title
Methamphetamine Ingestion Misdiagnosed as Centruroides sculpturatus Envenomation.
- Authors
Strommen, Joshua; Shirazi, Farshad
- Abstract
The authors present a case report of a 17-month-old female child who ingested a large amount of methamphetamine that looked very similar clinically to a scorpion envenomation specific to the southwestern United States by the species Centruroides sculpturatus. The child was initially treated with 3 vials of antivenom specific for that scorpion species and showed a transient, though clinically relevant neurologic improvement. Her clinical course of sympathomimetic toxicity resumed and she was treated with intravenous fluids and benzodiazepines after blood analysis showed significant levels of d-methamphetamine. This case report is to specifically underline the clinical confusion in discerning between these two conditions and the realization of limited and/or expensive resources that may be used in the process.
- Subjects
METHAMPHETAMINE abuse; DIAGNOSTIC errors; CENTRUROIDES; ANTIVENINS; SYMPATHOMIMETIC agents; BLOOD testing; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Case Reports in Emergency Medicine, 2015, Vol 2015, p1
- ISSN
2090-648X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2015/320574