Desensitized: The Cough-Drop Drug That Can Stop the Heart

Pick Your Poison

Pick Your Poison
Desensitized: The Cough-Drop Drug That Can Stop the Heart
Feb 14, 2024 Season 2 Episode 3 Dr. JP

A familiar medicine turned into a serial killer’s weapon. A numbing ingredient hiding in cough and throat products. And an antidote better known as a nutritional component.

Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.


An interactive medication-toxicity case involving local anesthetic exposure, seizures, cardiac collapse, abnormal oxygen delivery, and specialized rescue therapy.

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