Oops, meant to include you in the ping to #99.
http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/green/2009/07/14/sarah-palin-winking350x378.jpg
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“Outlook (Prognosis)
Taking more than 150mg/kg of aspirin can have serious and even deadly results if untreated. For a small adult, that’s roughly equal to taking 20 tablets containing 325mg aspirin. Much lower levels can affect children.
If treatment is delayed or the overdose is large enough, symptoms will continue to get worse. Breathing becomes extremely fast or may stop. Seizures, high fevers, or death may occur.
How well you do depends greatly on how much aspirin your body has absorbed — and how much is flowing through your blood. If you take a large amount of aspirin but come quickly to the emergency room, treatments may help keep your blood levels of aspirin very low. If you do not get to the emergency room fast enough, the level of aspirin in your blood can become dangerously high. “
hmmmmm...
The link is very useful and raises serious questions about timelines, what was done at the first hospital, why he was transferred and what happened during his ‘transfer’ to the other hospital. Most emergency rooms are equipped to handle all overdoses and acute care.
