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SPECIAL ALERT: Are We Helping Amlodipine Overdose Patients With High-Dose Insulin Therapy? NO!
“HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM.” High-dose insulin euglycemic therapy (HIET) was first recognized as an apparently miraculous rescue therapy for Calcium Channel Blocker (CCB) overdose about two decades ago. Since then, it has become standard therapy for CCB overdose, but without the necessary regard for differences between the two major classes of these drugs, Dihydropyridines (DHP) and non-DHPs. HIET works well for some patients, but not for others. Why? The recently published literature was coalesced to answer this key question. Amlodipine is the most common CCB agent seen in overdose, and HIET may be preventing amlodipine-overdose patients from recovering. In…
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