On 31 Aug 00, at 7:39, Michael Colley wrote:
> The Poisons unit are at it again!
>
> I was awakened from some much needed beauty sleep in the middle of the
> night by a 'phone call from a medical SHO. A patient had been
> admitted with a suspected paracetamol overdose. A paracetamol level
> had been measured and was found to be undetectable.
>
> It was then discovered that it was only 3 hours since the OD had been
> taken. The Guy's Poison Unit was phoned and the advice was given that
> 3 hour levels were uninterpretable and a further sample should be
> taken at 4 hours.
>
> The MLSO had rightly refused to do this without my approval, hence the
> phone call to me.
>
> When will Guy's stop giving inappropriate (read: totally WRONG)
> advice? When I take a couple of paracetamol for a headache I don't
> expect it to take 4 hours for a therapeutic level to appear in my
> blood and produce the desired effect.
>
> How do we get Guy's to use some common sense and stop misinforming
> medical SHOs (who ought to use their common sense too) ?
>
> --
> Michael Colley
>
> Dr. C. M. Colley
> Dept. Chemical Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon SN1 4 JU
> email: [log in to unmask]
Dr Rick Jones
Director of Chemical Pathology and Immunology
Institute of Pathology
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