
Toxicology Handbook
4th edition
By: Jason Armstrong, Ovidiu Pascu
Paperback | 16 August 2022 | Edition Number 4
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The book has been streamlined and fully updated to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide for all medical practitioners and health-care professionals who deal with poisonings. It contains quickly accessible information on poisons, toxins, antidotes, envenomings and antivenoms, and uses a structured and rigorous risk assessment-based approach to guide appropriate treatment decisions.
Written by leading Australian specialists in toxicology and informed by the latest clinical research, this is a must-have addition to all emergency departments and poison information centres.
Key Features
- Concisely written - helps the student, trainee, and clinician to find information quickly and easily
- A simple, easily remembered and elegant framework (R RSI DEAD) forming the basis of care for all toxicology patients
- Fully revised content, streamlined to be more user-friendly
- Evidence based and up to date - supports appropriate decision making
- Helps resolve common treatment dilemmas, including for digoxin and lithium poisoning, corrosive ingestions and management of envenomings
- Written and edited by experts in the field of toxicology
- An eBook included in all print purchases
- Expanded information on agents that are seen with increasing frequency in poisoned patients, including lamotrigine and pregabalin
- Updated detail on the management of agents including direct oral anticoagulants, digoxin, desvenlafaxine and corrosives
- Updated and standardised treatment recommendations for dysrhythmias, particularly resulting from drug-induced conduction abnormalities (QRS and QT prolongation)
- Simplified and standardised approaches to management (particularly cardiovascular toxicity from a variety of agents)
By Jason Armstrong, MD FACEM and Ovidiu Pascu, MD FACEM, Consultant Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA Poisons Information Centre; Clinical Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, WA, Australia
ISBN: 9780729544368
ISBN-10: 0729544362
Published: 16th August 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 560
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 4
Dimensions (cm): 18.5 x 12.5 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.58
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