insulin and heprin antidotes

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Can anyone please tell me where I can find out about Insulin antidotes and where & why my professor's answer is D10 & D50? Also the antidote for heparin sodium, and the antidote for Morphine Sulfate (Ms Contin)?

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Specializes in MICU.

we do not assignment for students without them trying to use google or their textbook to find the answers.

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Specializes in MICU.

do you mean magnesium sulfate?

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Specializes in Telemetry, IMCU.
Can anyone please tell me where I can find out about Insulin antidotes and where & why my professor's answer is D10 & D50? Also the antidote for heparin sodium, and the antidote for Morphine Sulfate (Ms Contin)?

To find the answer, figure out what D10 and D50 are. Also, you must know what insulin is and does. Once you find that out,you'll be able to answer. :)

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Try looking up "treatment for overdose of X" instead of antidote for these drugs which isn't the right terminology.

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Hi, yes I know what insulin is and does, so is my professor saying you would use D10 & D50 as an insulin antidote, which is really insulin overdose not really "antidote", so what I read according to drug guide it say use dextrose 10%-25% for acute hypoglycemia, and Dextrose 50% when its insulin induced hypoglycemia. is this correct? or am I still on the wrong track?

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Hi, yes I know what insulin is and does, so is my professor saying you would use D10 & D50 as an insulin antidote, which is really insulin overdose not really "antidote", so what I read according to drug guide it say use dextrose 10%-25% for acute hypoglycemia, and Dextrose 50% when its insulin induced hypoglycemia. is this correct? or am I still on the wrong track?
You are correct. There isn't a real "reversal" agent for insulin. It is the treatment for hypoglycemia that is caused by the insulin.

Morphine and heparin however do have reversal agents. What has your drug guide revealed to you?

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Thank you and yes I understand it is a "treatment" like you said after I finally started researching in my drug guide and decided to look up dextrose in the drug guide not "insulin" like my professor had on the sheet and that's what my drug guide had said about D10 & D50. About Morphine, from what I got from my drug guide would it be naloxone? I have not had a chance to look up heparin sodium yet.

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Naloxone is right or Narcan. It is an opiate agonist and will reverse most opiate based narcotics.

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Naloxone is right or Narcan. It is an opiate agonist and will reverse most opiate based narcotics.

Narcan/naloxone is an opioid antagonist. Which I know that is what you meant to put. I am just clarifying it for the students.

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oh sorry yes that is what I meant. Thank you

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Can anyone please tell me where I can find out about Insulin antidotes and where & why my professor's answer is D10 & D50? Also the antidote for heparin sodium, and the antidote for Morphine Sulfate (Ms Contin)?

You need to open your textbook. This is far too easy. It's not even conceptual, it's factual. Goodness, this could be Googled. I don't understand the laziness in some nursing students that come to this forum thinking they'll get straight answers without any input from themselves.

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