{"id":204,"date":"2020-07-06T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-07-06T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:04:43","slug":"iron-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/iron-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Iron_poisoning\/\">Iron Poisoning<\/a> was an existing Victorian CPG that has been revised<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In iron poisoning, the amount of elemental iron ingested determines the risk, not the amount of iron salt<\/li>\n<li>In severe poisonings, often there is a period of latency where symptoms subside before organ failure occurs<\/li>\n<li>Abdominal X-ray may be helpful if tablets have been ingested<\/li>\n<li>Consult a toxicologist when considering administering desferrioxamine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">For 24 hour advice, contact the Poisons Information Centre 13 11 26<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian CPG has been revised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}