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Fundaments of Toxicology—Approach to the Poisoned Patient

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, 2020
Management of the poisoned patient begins with supportive care, assessment of organ function and dysfunction, and consideration of known or suspected poisons. The possibility of multiple ingestions should be considered with intentional exposures or suicide attempts. Enteric decontamination involves treatment to prevent the absorption of toxins from the
Chiarra Ornillo, Nikolas Harbord
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Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975
Since demands are increasing for toxicological information on every aspect of environmental hazards, the toxicological sciences must have a broad, multidisciplinary, and active role in providing a safer environment than now exists. This is a difficult task, indeed, and will become even more difficult in the future.
J. Arena
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Ricin poisoning and forensic toxicology

Drug Testing and Analysis, 2009
AbstractRicin is one of the most fascinating poisons due to its high toxicity: as little as 500 µg can kill an adult. It gained fame by its use in the so‐called ‘umbrella murder’ to kill the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978. Ricin also became known as a potential bio‐terror agent to which people could be exposed through the air, food, or water.
Burkhard Madea, Frank Musshoff
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Position statement: single-dose activated charcoal. American Academy of Clinical Toxicology; European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.

Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology, 1997
In preparing this Position Statement, all relevant scientific literature was identified and reviewed critically by acknowledged experts using agreed criteria.
P. A. Chyka, D. Seger
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Paraquat: Toxicology and Impacts of Its Ban on Human Health and Agriculture

Weed science, 2019
Paraquat was the most successful nonselective herbicide in Korea due to its rapid herbicidal activity. However, its high mammalian toxicity, frequent self-poisoning incidents, and a lack of effective antidotes led to a paraquat ban in Korea in 2012 ...
Jin-Won Kim, Do-Soon Kim
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Clinical Toxicology of Yew Poisoning

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2018
Objectives: Yew plant materials contain highly toxic taxine alkaloids. Serious ingestions can result in life-threatening toxicity. The purpose of this article is to summarize the literature on the treatment of acute yew poisoning. Data Sources: PubMed (January 1946 to November 2017) was searched using the search terms “taxus/po”.
Dennis F. Thompson, Alexander W Labossiere   +1 more
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Position statement and practice guidelines on the use of multi-dose activated charcoal in the treatment of acute poisoning. American Academy of Clinical Toxicology; European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.

Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology, 1999
In preparing this Position Statement, all relevant scientific literature was identified and reviewed critically by acknowledged experts using agreed criteria.

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