March 2012
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February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
3 posts
Krokodil: Russia’s Designer Drug That Will Eat...
It sounds like a direct-to-Netflix horror movie plot — a cheap, addictive drug available in a foreign land, that turns the user’s skin a scaly green color. Soon it rots the flesh, causing the user’s skin to emulate that of a crocodile, leaving bone and muscle tissue exposed to the world. But the Russian drug known as krokodil is real.
Warning: Disburbing images of the effects of...
December 2011
18 posts
Poisonings kill more than car crashes... →
This is slightly old data (2008), but it’s an article from today’s health section of the New York Times.
Question...hydroxocobalamin and dialysis...
Someone asked a question about the post regarding the dialysis photosensors shutting down the machine because they sense a false blood leak into the dialysate due to the red color of hydroxocobalamin. The questioner had been previously instructed to avoid hydroxycobalamin use in the context of a patient that was potentially headed towards dialysis.
While this phenomenon has the potential for...
November 2011
11 posts
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
5 posts
July 2011
6 posts
