Emergency Toxicology

This practical handbook focuses on the diagnosis and management of poisoning. It begins with basic information on epidemiology, pharmacokinetics and psychiatric aspects, following this with such important preliminary management issues as patient evaluation and screening.

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The updated Second Edition of Dr. Viccellio's Handbook of Medical Toxicology is a comprehensive quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of the poisoned patient. In an easily accessible outline format, this information-packed book covers every kind of overdose or poisoning the emergency physician is likely to encounter--industrial and household substances, medical and psychiatric drugs, drugs of abuse, environmental toxins, and animal and plant toxins. A complete differential diagnostic table at the end of the book is extremely useful to the emergency physician. Each chapter of the Second Edition includes a key diagnostic factor table for rapid reference. New topics covered in this edition include medicolegal aspects of poisoning, toxicology of terrorism and warfare, thyroid hormone toxicity, radiation poisoning, PCBs and dioxins, and nitrogen oxides and sil fillers