Main description:

Building on the previous edition with contributions from internationally renowned experts this book provides a fully comprehensive resource for managing the post emergency/treatment stage of acute poisoning. Chapters incorporate evidence-based paradigms with up-to-date citations from the original medical literature. Topic areas covered include: diagnosis and management of the critically poisoned patient, including pediatric patients and poisoning in pregnancy; toxic syndromes including hepatotoxic and pulmonary syndromes as well as poisonings from medications, drugs of abuse, chemical and biological agents. This book is an essential resource for Clinical Toxicologists, Intensivists and Emergency Medicine specialists in training and in practice.

Contents:

4-Dimethylaminophenol.- Acetaminophen (Paracetamol).- Beta Receptor Antagonists.- Cardiac Conduction and Rate Disturbances.- Digitalis Glycosides.- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Cardiopulmonary Bypass in the Poisoned Patient.- Fumigants.- Gyromitra Mushrooms.- Hydrocarbons and Halogenated Hydrocarbons.- Irritant and Toxic Respiratory Injuries.- Lipid Resuscitation Therapy.- Marine Vertebrates, Cnidarians and Mollusks.- Nerve Agents.- Organophosphorus and Carbamate Insecticides.- Phosphine and Metal Phosphide.- Rifampin, Dapsone, and Vancomycin.- Salicylates.- Thallium.- Unithiol (DMPS).- Valproic Acid.- Widow and Related Lactrodectus Spiders.