Overdose/Poisoning

A 21-year-old woman visited a rave in Toronto, Ontario ingested one tablet of the drug Ecstasy (3,4 -methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA]). She and a friend arrived back at home at 05:30. At 09:00 the girl could not be awakened, and was observed to be cold and had blue fingertips (Hoorn 2001). We want you to consider the symptoms, the systematic approach to understanding what happened and the patient's toxicology reported in the article.