Resuscitate before you decontaminate — the poisoned child

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This is one MedVellum formative structured clinical encounter. The scoring, prompts and performance descriptions are educational feedback tools. They are not an official college station, timing, mark allocation, pass score or reproduced examination format. The encounter assesses first-impression recognition, leadership of resuscitation before decontamination, the four-question ingestion history, reading the toxidrome, calling the Poisons Information Centre, deciding on activated charcoal within the first hour, communication, reassessment, safeguarding in parallel, handover and disposition. ^{[1] [9]}