About Kathryn T. Kopec, DO

Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology Faculty
Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Danger in the Shallows

In addition to local pain and dermal injury, stings from this marine animal can result in what systemic symptoms?

  1. Acute liver injury
  2. Hypotension, arrhythmia, and cardiac arrest
  3. Nausea, vomiting, and respiratory arrest
  4. Numbness, tingling, and muscle paralysis

[Image courtesy of Guido Gautsch, Wikimedia Commons]

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