Therapeutic plasma exchange: a second‐line treatment for brodifacoum poisoning following an anaphylactoid reaction to vitamin K
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Vitamin K1 is the first-line therapy to brodifacoum poisoning. Anaphylactoid reactions may occur anytime during intravenous administration of vitamin K1 injection. Vitamin K1 must be ceased when anaphylactoid reactions emerge, and therapeutic plasma exchange could be a second-line option.
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