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Poisoning and Drug Overdose - Clinical Manual
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ISBN-10: 0071668330
ISBN-13: 9780071668330
Poisoning and Drug Overdose - Clinical Manual
Author(s): Kent R. Olson
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 832
Edition: 6th
Published: McGraw-Hill Medical (1 Oct 2011)
The leading toxicologic emergencies source-revised and updated! With each bestselling edition, Poisoning & Drug Overdose has helped poison control staff, medical toxicologists, and emergency physicians respond to drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures. Poisoning & Drug Overdose, Sixth Edition delivers critical information on effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures.
- Divided into four sections, easily identified by dictionary-style tabs:
- Section I covers initial emergency management, including treatment of complications; physical and laboratory diagnosis; and decontamination and enhanced elimination procedures
- Section II provides detailed information on 150 common drugs and poisons
- Section III describes the use of antidotes and therapeutic drugs to treat poisoning
- Section IV describes the medical management of chemical and occupational exposures, with a table of more than 500 industrial chemicals