Citation

Heath A, Hultén BA. Hum. Toxicol. 1987; 6(6): 525-526.

Affiliation

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Sahlgren's Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3692499

Abstract

A young female patient was admitted twice within two months, each time after an overdose of 500 mg terbutaline. Clinical features included nausea, tachycardia, tremor, hyperglycemia and hypokalemia. Although plasma concentrations of terbutaline were at least 50 times the normal therapeutic level, after potassium substitution the outcome was uneventful.

Language: en