Episode 19 - Environmental: Mushrooms and Hypothermia

FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast

English - November 25, 2014 11:57 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 222 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 18 - Geriatrics

Next Episode: Episode 20 - Anticoagulation

This week we review the Tox Talk podcast, Episode 23, Mushrooms. Key pearls

Clitocybe, Inocybe - contain muscarine which stimulates muscarinic receptors (acetylcholine/parasympathetic), causing a cholinergic toxidrome.

Memory aid: these mushrooms end in -yBE, akin to the "killer B's" that make cholinergic toxicity deadly - bradycardia, bronchorrhea, bronchospasm.

Gyromitra - (false morel)

Memory aid: gyromitra named because they look like the gyri of the brain and, conveniently, make the brain seize through depletion of GABA.

Amanita phalloides - the mushroom equivalent of acetaminophen toxicity.

Then, we delve into core content pearls on accidental hypothermia using Rosenalli (Rosen's Emergency Medicine and Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Review Guide).

As always, visit foamcast.org for show notes and the generously donated Rosh Review questions.

Thanks y'all!

-Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer