Iron — ER action cards
This chapter covers the assessment and emergency management of iron toxicity, including clinical stages, diagnostic testing, and critical interventions like deferoxamine and whole bowel irrigation. Mastering this is crucial for board exams to recognize and treat life-threatening overdose.
About these Iron action cards
These 1 infographic condense Iron into the decisions examiners expect in the first minutes: recognition, immediate stabilisation, key investigations, first-line drugs with doses, and disposition. They are built for fast revision before emergency medicine board exams such as ABEM, MRCEM, the Saudi Board, the Arab Board and the Egyptian Board.
Use them as a last-minute checklist, then go deeper in the full Iron topic, which adds an English and Arabic podcast with live captions, a structured summary, a mind map, board-style MCQs with explanations and an interactive case simulation.
Part of the Toxicology chapter on RescueEM. For education and exam preparation only; not a substitute for clinical judgement or local protocols.