A patient diagnosed with depression on treatment came to emergency with altered sensorium seizures, palpitations and ECG showing sinus tachycardia. How do you treat this patient?
Correct Answer: IV Sodium bicarbonate
Description: The above symptoms suggests of TCA toxicity in a patient of depression and NaHCO3 remains as the main stay of treating TCA toxicity and metabolic acidosis associated with it.
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