Medical Toxicology

This is a case-based medical text intended to teach common toxicologic exposure scenarios beyond the basics. It provides an in-depth review of the pathology and management of multiple overdoses, poisonings, and envenomations, without requiring the reader to perform their own exhaustive literature review.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Beyond NAC: Acidemia after Acetaminophen Overdose


• Benjamin Tartter and Michael Ballester


• Chapter 2: Severe Complications of Salicylate Overdose


• Jay Bhula and Richard Kleiman


• Chapter 3: Mind the Gap: Toxic Alcohol Management


• Patrick Filkins


• Chapter 4: Unrelenting Insulin Release: Sulfonylurea/Meglitinide Overdose


• Matthew Sheneman, Brian P. Murray, and Joseph E. Carpenter


• Chapter 5: Some Like It Hot: Management of Toxic Hyperthermia


• Nicholas Titelbaum and Brent Morgan


• Chapter 6: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome vs Serotonin Syndrome


• Jasmine Gentry and Katie Lippert


• Chapter 7: To Chelate or Not to Chelate: When Too Much Iron is Too Much


• Christy Hallett


• Chapter 8: How Long Can You Go?: Beta Blocker and Calcium Channel Blocker Overdoses


• Michael Frein and Jessica Zhen


• Chapter 9: Vitamins that Kill: Vitamin A and D Overdoses


• Stephanie Hon


• Chapter 10: Rats Hate this Stuff: Potent Long-Acting Vitamin K Antagonists


• Reena Underiner and Jonathan de Olano


• Chapter 11: Stuffing is for Turkeys: Management of Illicit Drug Stuffers


• Zachary Illg


• Chapter 12: When Antidiarrheals Stop More than Loose Bowels: Loperamide Induced Cardiac Dysfunction


• Rita Farah and Brent Morgan


• Chapter 13: Save a Life, Initiate Buprenorphine: Emergency Department Buprenorphine Administration


• Maxwell Kruse and Josh da Silva


• Chapter 14: Tricyclic Antidepressant Toxicity: Management of the Crashing Patient


• Matthew Oram and Joshua da Silva


• Chapter 15: Don't Lose your Ear Over Cardiac Glycosides: Cardiac Glycoside Toxicity Management


• Marshall Howell, Girgis Fahmy, and Emily Kiernan


• Chapter 16: The (Lack of) Benefit of a Screening Urine Drug Screen


• Rebecca Ervin and Pradeep Padmanabhan


• Chapter 17: Diphenhydramine: The Cardiac Poison


• Chidiebere Victor Ugwu and T. Christy Hallett


• Chapter 18: A Long Way from Woodstock: Synthetic Cannabinoids


• Daniel Nogee


• Chapter 19: Beyond Benzos: Alcohol and Sedative-Hypnotic Withdrawal


• Kyle Suen


• Chapter 20: All Amped Up and Nowhere to Go: Caffeine and Methylxanthine Overdose


• Nicholas Nuveen and Melissa Gittinger


• Chapter 21: Not So Essential Oils: Essential Oil Ingestions


• Ashima Goyal Gurkha and Dhritiman Gurkha


• Chapter 22: ME THink You Should Not Use: Methamphetamines Intoxication


• Suad Al Sulaimani


• Chapter 23: The Rummy Rum Rums: Alcohol Intoxication


• Destiny Horton and Mohan Punja


• Chapter 24: The Mu-Agonist Blues: Opioid Overdose and Withdrawal


• Tori Ehrhardt and Alaina Steck


• Chapter 25: GABA-B, The Forgotten Receptor Overlooked No More: Baclofen Overdose and Withdrawal


• Nicholas Hoffmann and Jay Bernstein


• Chapter 26: Is that Chest Pain, a Heart Attack, or the Line of Cocaine?: Managing Cocaine-induced Chest Pain


• Amir Jamal Mansour, Pradeep Padmanabhan, and Besher Assi


• Chapter 27: Don't Poke the Snake: The Do's and Don'ts of Snake Bite Management


• Katie Lippert and Joshua DaSilva


• Chapter 28: You are Barking Up the Wrong Scorpion: Bark Scorpion Envenomations


• Karl Holt and Jonathan de Olano


• Chapter 29: The Shy Widow: Black Widow Envenomations


• Matthew Eisenstat


• Chapter 30: Don't Get Washed Away in the Red Tide: Shellfish and Seafood Related Toxins


• Alyka Fernandez and Melissa Gittinger


• Chapter 31: Acetylcholine Overload: Organophosphate and Carbamate Exposures


• Luis Espinoza and Joshua da Silva


• Chapter 32: Redox Cycling Out of Control: Herbicide Ingestions


• Nicholas Titelbaum


• Chapter 33: I am all Choked Up, Over Chlorine: Chlorine and Other Pulmonary Irritants


• Emily Kiernan


• Chapter 34: What You Don't See Might Hurt You: Acute Radiation Syndrome and Cutaneous Radiation Syndrome


• Girgis Fahmy and Ziad Kazzi

About the author

Joseph Carpenter, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Medical Toxicology Section, Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Carpenter completed his residency in emergency medicine at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and fellowship in medical toxicology at Emory University and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
His clinical time is split between Grady Memorial Hospital's emergency department, medically assisted opioid treatment clinic, and medical toxicology consultation service, as well as the Georgia Poison Center. His research efforts have been funded by multiple federal agencies and lie at the growing intersection of emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine.

Brian Patrick Murray, DO is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. He graduated from Swarthmore College

with a BA in Biochemistry and earned his DO at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a Traditional Rotating Internship at Nassau University Medical Center, his Emergency Medicine Residency at Brooke Army Medical Center, and subspecialty training in Medical Toxicology at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Summary

This is a case-based medical text intended to teach common toxicologic exposure scenarios beyond the basics. It provides an in-depth review of the pathology and management of multiple overdoses, poisonings, and envenomations, without requiring the reader to perform their own exhaustive literature review.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Carpenter, B. Patrick Murray, B. Patrick (Assistant Professor of Emergen Murray
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2024
• EAN: 9780197635513
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763551-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: What Do I Do Now Emergency Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); EDUCATION / General, SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / Toxicology, Medical toxicology, Clinical & internal medicine, Clinical and internal medicine