What are the symptoms of organophosphate poisoning?
In this article, we examine the symptoms of poisoning from organophosphate, a form of insecticide.
December 19, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: article, emergency medicine, examine-the-symptoms, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, risks, symptoms, the-risks
Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures
U.S. Poison Control Centers receive a call every 24 minutes, on average, regarding dietary supplement exposures, according to a new study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the…
July 26, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: call-every, control, emergency medicine, from-the-center, injury, injury-research, new-study, nutrition, poison-control, policy, regarding-dietary, supplement-exposures
Children in intensive care recover faster with little to no nutrition
Critically ill children are artificially fed soon after their arrival in intensive care. This common practice is based on the assumption that it will help them recover more quickly.
March 16, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: arrival, assumption, common, common-practice, emergency medicine, fed-soon, ill-children, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-assumption, will-help
Too hot to handle: how to avoid heat-related illness
In this Spotlight feature, we take a look at how heat-related illnesses are caused and what measures can be taken to prevent them from occurring.
June 24, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, emergency medicine, how-heat-related, look-at-how, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, spotlight
High-dose vitamin D for ICU patients who are vitamin D deficient does not improve outcomes
Administration of high-dose vitamin D3 compared with placebo did not reduce hospital length of stay, intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, hospital mortality, or the risk of death at 6 months…
September 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: emergency medicine, high-dose-vitamin, hospital-length, hospital-mortality, icu, not-reduce, nutrition, placebo-did, risk, the-risk