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Title: Dreisbach's Handbook of Poisoning

Price: $59.95

ISBN: 1850700389

Publication Date: 2001

# of Pages: 128


  • New! Reflects the latest diagnosis and treatment procedures in emergency rooms and poison centers
  • Uses an organizational system that facilitates correlation of poisons with types of exposure
  • Serves as a quick guide to more detailed sources of poisoning information, including Web sites and recent articles
  • New! Simplifies sections on management of poisoning for easier use in emergencies
  • Lists popular brand-named products in the index, including many insecticides and medicinal agents
  • Provides guidelines for consultations with medical toxicologists and regional poison information centers
  • Includes chemicals and substances that are now banned in the United States but may still be available elsewhere
  • New! Presents new sections in the medicinal chapters to include the enormous expansion of drugs since the last edition

    Now in its thirteenth edition, Dreisbach's Handbook of Poisoning is long established as the definitive handbook of poisoning for all physicians, nurses, crisis and hotline workers, paramedics, and students. Rapid response is critical during the initial management of poison cases. This ready-reference guide provides antidotes, antivenins, and more for a vast number of substances. It covers medical toxicology - including prevention and management of exposures, poisonings, adverse effects, abuse and withdrawal from pharmaceuticals - and household, environmental, and natural hazards.

    The book begins by providing general information about the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of poisoning. Then it considers the important medicolegal aspects of poisoning. The remainder of the book focuses on specific poisons, organized into agricultural, industrial, household, medicinal, and natural hazards. Chemically- and pharmacologically-related agents have been grouped together wherever possible. For optimal care of critical or unusual poisonings, the book also contains guidelines for consultations with medical toxicologists and regional poison information centers. A concise summary of the diagnosis and treatment of poisoning, Dreisbach's Handbook of Poisoning provides an extraordinary amount of practical information in a compact format.

   

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