
Symptomatology and Therapy of Toxicological Emergencies
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Symptomatology and Therapy of Toxicological Emergencies is a handbook on toxicological emergencies that includes much new material and discusses many new substances which have become available since the second edition, entitled ""Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment of Certain Acute Intoxications,"" was published in 1958. When compared with the second edition, this volume covers a considerably larger number of drugs and chemicals, presents urgently needed information on poisonous plants, lists the compounds implicated in blood dyscrasias, and includes accepted threshold limit values for chemicals, the maximum permissible concentrations of various chemicals in food, drugs, and cosmetics, as well as tables on the acute toxicity of numerous chemicals. This handbook will be helpful to teachers of chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, radiation medicine, etc., who instruct students or supervise the work of technicians. It will be of particular value to those industries and operations which have an active industrial hygiene program. Finally, but most important, this volume was written for the physician who needs toxicological information on a drug or a chemical, who may need a reference book which will quickly review for him the major side effects he may expect in a patient, or who requires additional information for the treatment of an intoxication.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I First Aid and General Suggestions for Treatment
General Recommendations and Advice by Telephone
Measures to Prevent Poisoning Accidents
Transportation of Injured
Ingested Poisons and Their Removal from the Alimentary Tract
Food Poisoning
Poisoning by Plants
Exposure by Inhalation, Choking, or Suffocation
Skin Exposure
Eye Exposure
Anaphylactic Drug Reaction
Tetanus (Lockjaw)
Mouth-to-Mouth or Mouth-to-Nose Breathing for Adults and Children
External Cardiac Massage
Combination: Silvester Method for Artificial Respiration with External Cardiac Massage
Management after Cardiac Arrest
Tracheostomy
Pain
Chemical Burns
Shock
Diving
Chapter II Drugs and Dosages (Adults) for the Treatment of Intoxications
Gastric Lavage
Disturbances of the Digestive Tract
To Induce Central Nervous System Stimulation
Tremors or Convulsions
Extrapyramidal Reactions or Tremors Induced by Tranquilizers (Parkinsonian Syndrome, Tetanus-like Syndrome, Chorea)
To Increase Blood Pressure
To Reduce Blood Pressure in a Hypertensive Crisis
To Stimulate Cardiac Activity
To Lower Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure
Respiratory Depression
To Replace Potassium
Acidosis
To Induce Diuresis of an Acid Urine
To Induce Diuresis of an Alkaline Urine
To Reduce Hyperthermia
Methemoglobinemia
Narcotic Agents
Nonnarcotic Drugs Recommended to Be Used Whenever
Possible Instead of Narcotics
Chapter III Supportive Treatment
Respiration
Circulation
Gastroenteric Tract
Central Nervous System
Liver
Kidneys, Electrolytes, and Water Balance
Dialytic Therapy of Poisoning
Blood Dyscrasias
Chapter IV Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment of Intoxications
Listing of Drugs and Chemicals
Chapter V Tabular Summaries of Acute Toxicity
Tables I-LX
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 614
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1964
- Published: January 1, 1964
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483274492
About the Authors
William B. Deichmann
Horace W. Gerarde
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