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and what drug/other recommendations would you give her?
A 19 year old white female was brought to the emergency department by her mother. She recently (two months ago) suffered a miscarriage and her boyfriend of three years left her three weeks ago because "he didn't love her anymore without the baby." Her mother found her in the bathroom, approximately an hour ago, vomiting, with two empty medication bottles next to the sink.The mother thinks both bottles were about half full prior to this incident and has brought the bottles to the ED. The bottles are a Bayer® 325mg Safety Coated aspirin bottle (100 tablet size), and a 12 ounce Pepto-Bismol® bottle. Upon further questioning of KR, she revealed she had ingested the medications about 3 hours before her mother found her. An orogastric tube was placed and lavage was performed until lavage fluid was clear, after which 50g of activated charcoal and 50 grams of sorbitol were given.
A 19 year old white female was brought to the emergency department by her mother. She recently (two months ago) suffered a miscarriage and her boyfriend of three years left her three weeks ago because "he didn't love her anymore without the baby." Her mother found her in the bathroom, approximately an hour ago, vomiting, with two empty medication bottles next to the sink.The mother thinks both bottles were about half full prior to this incident and has brought the bottles to the ED. The bottles are a Bayer® 325mg Safety Coated aspirin bottle (100 tablet size), and a 12 ounce Pepto-Bismol® bottle. Upon further questioning of KR, she revealed she had ingested the medications about 3 hours before her mother found her. An orogastric tube was placed and lavage was performed until lavage fluid was clear, after which 50g of activated charcoal and 50 grams of sorbitol were given.
