The nurse is acting as the triage nurse in the emergency department when a 16-year-old boy is brought in by his friends. The patient is in respiratory distress, he is vomiting, and blood is noted in the vomitus
He is somnolent and his electrocardiogram shows an arrhythmia. The boy's friends tell you he was taking a "bunch of little green pills" he got from the cupboard at his grandparent's house. The nurse suspects what? A) Overdose of sleeping pills
B) Poisoning
C) Anaphylactic shock
D) Allergic reaction to Dyazide
B
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Poisoning occurs when an overdose of a drug damages multiple body systems, leading to the potential for fatal reactions. The situation described does not indicate what was contained in the little green pills so it is not possible to say whether the drugs were sedatives or triamterene and hydrochlorothiazide (Dyazide). The symptoms do not indicate an anaphylactic reaction, which would not normally include bloody vomitus.
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