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Which finding would the nurse anticipate when assessing a patient with an atropine overdose?

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Atropine is an anticholinergic agent that can activate the autonomous sympathetic nervous systems. The symptoms mnemonic would be hot as a hare(hyperthermia), blind as a bat(pupil mydriasis), dry as a bone(no sweat), red as a beet(vasodilatation), and mad as a hatter(delirium), stuffed as a pipe(urinary retention)

But the one that life-threatening and needs to be anticipated would be arrhythmia(which can cause cardiac arrest) and seizure
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