Don't Eat the Children

[MedicPrincess]

Had an unconscious patient..... possible OD... possible Tramadol reaction.... either way, she was my second of 4 intubations last night....

So we get her to the hospital and start really looking at her medications.... This is what we found.....

 

[Tincanfireman]

Her last name wasn't Lechter or Packer, was it?

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/alfred_packer/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter

 

[Onceamedic]

and here I thought this thread was a plea to be kind to newbies instead of skewering them on their first posts.. ^_^

 

[rmellish]

You're probably supposed to take this med with food, and who can blame these companies for covering their butts?

 

[flhtci01]

Would large ones be ok? :unsure:

 

[rmellish]

Would large ones be ok? :unsure:

Probably, the small ones pose a choking hazard.

 

[aussieemt1980]

Sounds like good, sound advice

 

[stephenrb81]

It's because of a contraindication.

If a menopausal woman takes this within 4-6 hours of eating a small child, The combination of the female's current hormone deficiency + this hormone pill + lack of hormones in a pre-pubescent child could possibly cause a tear in the space-time continuum!!!

Geez, basic pharmacodynamics people