J Educ Teach Emerg Med
October 2024
Audience: Clerkship-level medical students, sub-interns, junior and senior residents, attending physicians.
Introduction: Bite injuries and envenomation are core content found in the model of the clinical practice of emergency medicine.1 However, depending on the geographic location of training or clinical practice, physicians may or may not be exposed to these pathologies.
Unlabelled: This case report presents a patient with ethylene glycol intoxication from antifreeze ingestion. Ethylene glycol is an active ingredient in antifreeze, traditionally causing an anion gap metabolic acidosis with a high osmolality gap. In our emergency department, serum ethylene glycol is a send-out test requiring hours for a result.
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