Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. BET 1. Optimal body position in oral poisoning cases.

摘要

A 30-year-old woman had swallowed an overdose of pills. Her husband asks you what he could have done to help his wife while waiting for the emergency medical services to arrive. You wonder whether he could have laid her in a particular position to ensure that the poisoning would have less detrimental effects.