Key result
Prompt emergency management successfully reverses severe accidental flecainide overdose in an older adult.
Why the study?
Flecainide toxicity can cause increased cardiovascular instability that significantly affects patient outcomes if not recognized early.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the importance of early recognition and management of flecainide toxicity, including characteristic ECG changes.
Supports early recognition in flecainide toxicity; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Flecainide toxicity can result in increased cardiovascular instability which can significantly alter patient outcome if not recognised early. In this case report, the management of a 68-year-old woman who took an unintentional overdose of flecainide is detailed. We look at the management she received in the emergency department and her successful recovery and follow-up since the admission. In addition, the case report outlines the ECG changes that are most commonly documented in flecainide overdose and reviews the frequently used treatment methods for the overdose as summarised in current literature.
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Ghataoura et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Flecainide toxicity (n=1). Flecainide overdose was evaluated on Management and recovery. A 68-year-old woman who took an unintentional overdose of flecainide was successfully managed in the emergency department and recovered.
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