TY - JOUR
T1 - Delayed Salicylate Toxicity in a 17-Year-Old Girl with Initially Undetectable Salicylate Concentration 3.9 Hours after Ingestion
AU - Beauchamp, Gillian A.
AU - Hendrickson, Robert G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - We report the case of a 17-year-old girl with a 126-mg/kg nonenteric coated aspirin ingestion with nontoxic salicylate concentrations at 1.5 and 3.9 hours postingestion, who developed tinnitus and vomiting an estimated 8 hours postingestion, and who was subsequently found to have a toxic salicylate concentration at 22.7 hours postingestion. This case, as well as previous cases of delayed aspirin therapy, may prompt providers to consider educating patients and their care providers regarding the need to return for further testing if symptoms, such as vomiting or tinnitus, develop after an aspirin ingestion.
AB - We report the case of a 17-year-old girl with a 126-mg/kg nonenteric coated aspirin ingestion with nontoxic salicylate concentrations at 1.5 and 3.9 hours postingestion, who developed tinnitus and vomiting an estimated 8 hours postingestion, and who was subsequently found to have a toxic salicylate concentration at 22.7 hours postingestion. This case, as well as previous cases of delayed aspirin therapy, may prompt providers to consider educating patients and their care providers regarding the need to return for further testing if symptoms, such as vomiting or tinnitus, develop after an aspirin ingestion.
KW - salicylate toxicity
KW - toxicology
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U2 - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000859
DO - 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000859
M3 - Article
C2 - 27749632
AN - SCOPUS:84991474881
SN - 0749-5161
VL - 33
SP - e126-e127
JO - Pediatric emergency care
JF - Pediatric emergency care
IS - 11
ER -