Saving poisoned patients with basic methods in Intensive Care

Sometimes, patients recently admitted to Intensive Care, die so fast that we do not even have the time to make the diagnosis. And, in this situations, a poisoning could have been the cause of the sickness, but because we do not suspect it, the patient dies. We can be lucky if in the postmortem is performed and the pathologist is good enough to identify this cause.

From my experience, when everything is almost lost, we always have the alternative of continuous haemofiltration. If it is Sepsis, it will help for the inflammatory markers to be washed out; and if it is a poisoning, we can be lucky if the poison is washed out. This can be helped if we add some fresh frozen plasma that binds the poison and is trapped better by the filter.