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Category Toxicology
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Button Battery Update 3.0

Want to know the latest on button battery management, prevention and immediate care? Look no further than our latest tox offering.
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Network Five: Toxicology

Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 19 - Toxicology reviewing papers on chemical warfare agents, Clozapine and drug overdose in pregnancy.
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Charles Bertrand

Charles AHA Bertrand (1777-1849) was a French physician; Least recognised for his self-experimentation with charcoal as an antidote for ingested poisonings.
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Serotonin toxicity

A 23 year-old female is brought to your ED by a friend. She appears anxious, distressed and confused. A friend volunteers that the patient had seen a GP in the past few weeks as she was feeling depressed.
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William P. Hort

William Peter Hort (1799-1852) was an English born, American physician; one of the earliest clinical case reports in America on the use of oral charcoal as an antidote for acute poisoning
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Serotonin Syndrome CCC

Serotonin syndrome results from drug-induced over-stimulation of serotonin receptors in the CNS and is characterized by a triad of CNS dysfunction, autonomic disturbance and neuromuscular effects; aka serotonin toxicity
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TCA overdose – beyond bicarbonate

A 38 yr old male presents to your ED, 2 hours after ingesting an unknown quantity of amitriptyline (TCA) with a GCS of 13, HR 130, BP96/50. How do you proceed?
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Network Five: Toxicology

In this exciting episode, we will be discussing the role of DigiFab in chronic digoxin toxicity before diving into an interesting case of organophosphate poisoning
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Ernest S. Reynolds

Ernest Septimus Reynolds (1861 - 1926) was an English physician. Early description of Mees lines, arsenic poisoning and the 'Epidemic of Peripheral Neuritis Amongst Beer Drinkers in Manchester and District'
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Lethal and insidious

Addiction is potentially the most lethal disease we encounter in medical practice. As emergency healthcare providers we can have an enormous impact on 'years of life lost' by managing this illness well.