Description: For the emergency physician, poison information specialist, internist, and pediatrician, the new edition of this classic continues to provide information and guidance for immediate management of poisoning.
By: Goldfrank, Lewis R.; Flomenbaum, Neal E.; Lewin, Neal A.; Howland, Mary Ann; Hoffman, Robert S.; Nelson, Lewis S.
Knovel Release Date:
Jan 7, 2005
Knovel Subject Area(s):
Safety & Industrial Hygiene
Description:
New edition of a text in which 117 contributions offer a case study approach to medical toxicology. Topics include the biochemical and molecular basis, the pathophysiologic (organ system) basis, and clinical issues such as prescription medication, psychopharmacologic medications, alcohol and drugs of abuse, food poisoning, botanicals, heavy metals, household toxins, pesticides, occupational and environmental toxins, toxic envenomations, special populations, and preventive, psychosocial, nursing, epidemiologic, research, and legal perspectives.