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By Lindsay Murray, MB, BS, FACEM, Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Australia Frank Daly, MBBS, FACEM, Director of Emergency Department and Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, Royal Perth Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer in
Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, WA and NSW Poisons Information Centres, Australia Mark Little, MBBS, DTM&H(Lond), FACEM, MPH&T, Consultant Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Perth; Clinical
Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, WA and NSW Poisons Information
Centres, Australia Mike Cadogan, MA(Oxon), MBChB, FACEM, Consultant Emergency Physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Emergency Department, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Australia
Description The Toxicology Handbook provides an easily followed approach to the assessment and management of common, unusual and life-threatening
poisonings. Separate sections address envenoming problems specific to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This easy-to-use
handbook has a practical clinical focus and contains the authors' "Handy tips" and "Pitfalls" together with paediatric and pregnancy
considerations.
Audience
Emergency Medicine staff - physicians, trainees & nurses; rural & remote GPs and healthcare workers; RFDS
Contents
Chapter 1: Approach to the poisoned patient
1.1 Approach to the ?Poisoned Patient? 1.2 Resuscitation 1.3 Risk
Assessment 1.4 Supportive Care and Monitoring 1.5 Investigations 1.6 Gastrointestinal Decontamination 1.7 Enhanced Elimination 1.8
Antidotes 1.9 Disposition
Chapter 2: Specific considerations
2.1 Approach to Coma 2.2 Approach to Hypotension 2.3
Approach to Seizures 2.4 Agitated Delirium 2.5 Serotonin Syndrome 2.6 Anticholinergic Syndrome 2.7 Cholinergic Syndrome 2.8
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome 2.9 Alcohol Abuse, Dependence and Withdrawal 2.10 Sedative-Hypnotic Withdrawal 2.11 Opioid Withdrawal 2.12
Body Packers and Stuffers 2.13 Principles of Snakebite Management in Australia 2.14 Osmolality and Osmolar Gap 2.15 Approach
to Acid?Base Problems 2.16 The 12-lead ECG in Toxicology 2.17 Pregnancy and Lactation 2.18 Paediatric Considerations 2.19
Poisoning in the Elderly
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