![]() Our patient was treated with intravenous calcium, bicarbonate, hyperinsulinemic euglycemic therapy and continuous venovenous hemodialysis without success. She also developed acute respiratory failure, bradycardic ventricular rhythm necessitating continuous transvenous pacing, and anuric renal failure. Our patient became hypotensive requiring three high-dose vasopressors to maintain arterial pressure. ![]() The patient is a 41-year-old Caucasian woman who ingested 19.2 g of sustained release verapamil in a suicide attempt. ![]() Massive intentional verapamil overdose is a toxic ingestion which can cause multiorgan system failure and has no currently known antidote.
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