The authors respond: Reporting novel treatments of life threatening ingestions

We thank the authors for their interest in our case report [1]. Unfortunately, they did not appreciate the purpose of our article. We did not intend to dictate the therapy of toxin ingestion based upon robust evidence. Rather, as with most case reports, the purpose of our publication was to be hypothesis generating in order to provide clinical rationale for investigators wishing to evaluate this topic in greater detail. We were presented with a life-threatening ingestion and preemptively (prior to hemodynamic deterioration) chose to initiate hemodialysis based upon the known science and physiology of caffeine.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research