Predictors of Ethylene Glycol Ingestion Cases Called into a Regional Poison CenterJournal of Medical Toxicology - Tập 8 - Trang 130-134 - 2012
M. E. Sutter, W. A. Al-Khameess, J. L. Abramson, B. W. Morgan
Poison center consultations for potential toxic alcohol poisonings are challenging because blood levels are typically not immediately available. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether readily obtainable laboratory values can be used to accurately and rapidly diagnose these poisonings. Over a 15-month period, patients with a history of toxic alcohol ingestion or a metabolic ac...... hiện toàn bộ
Disease surveillance and nonprescription medication sales can predict increases in poison exposureJournal of Medical Toxicology - Tập 4 - Trang 7-10 - 2008
Edward Krenzelok, Erma MacPherson, Rita Mrvos
Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) is a national real-time syndromic surveillance system that classifies hospital registration chief complaints into one of seven syndromic categories. The National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM) is a public health surveillance tool that is designed to collect and analyze the daily sales of 18 categories of nonprescription medications. The goal of RODS a...... hiện toàn bộ
Confirmed Fatal Colchicine Poisoning in an Adolescent with Blood and Bile Concentrations—Implications for GI Decontamination?Journal of Medical Toxicology - Tập 19 - Trang 280-283 - 2023
Joshua Trebach, Molly Boyd, Andres Crane, Phil DiSalvo, Rana Biary, Robert S. Hoffman, Mark K. Su
Colchicine is commonly used to treat diseases like acute gouty arthritis. However, colchicine has a very narrow therapeutic index, and ingestions of > 0.5mg/kg can be deadly. We report a fatal acute colchicine overdose in an adolescent. Blood and postmortem bile colchicine concentrations were obtained to better understand the degree of enterohepatic circulation of colchicine. A 13-year-old boy pre...... hiện toàn bộ