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A patient with an extensive medical and psychiatric history has taken a large, mixed overdose of many tablets with alcohol. He is acidotic and hyperkaliaemic and needs renal replacement therapy.

Which of the following drugs will not be filtered out by haemodialysis?

(Please select 1 option)

Diazepam This is the correct answer

Aminophylline

Alcohol

Aspirin Incorrect answer selected

Lithium

Explanation

Mixed overdoses are problematic and immediate review on toxbase should be done. Diazepam and other benzodiazepines are not filtered via haemodialysis.

The drugs which can be filtered and cleared can be remembered by the acronym BLAST.

Barbiturate

Lithium

Alcohol

Salicylates

Theophyllines.

Answer Statistics

1

44%

2

19%

3

19%

4

9%

5

12%

Times answered: 282