{"id":422,"date":"2021-08-13T05:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=422"},"modified":"2021-08-13T05:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:46:38","slug":"updated-cpg-serotonin-toxicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-serotonin-toxicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Serotonin toxicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toxicology Committee updated the existing Victorian CPG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Serotonin_toxicity\/\">Serotonin toxicity<\/a>, this CPG was previously called Serotonin syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be aware of the possibility of serotonin toxicity diagnosis when patients have been exposed to any of the agents implicated<\/li>\n<li>Serotonin toxicity encompasses a wide spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms<\/li>\n<li>Severe serotonin toxicity is a medical emergency. Untreated, serotonin toxicity can progress to multi-organ failure and death. Severe cases should be managed in a Paediatric ICU<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serotonin toxicity is an existing Victorian CPG that will be considered for PIC endorsement in August.<\/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-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}