Here's the latest edition of the most comprehensive reference in clinical toxicology...the ONLY text that features contributions from experts in all disciplines - medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, toxicology, nephrology, and primary care. Readers are given a practical, readable, authoritative source of information to help them manage their toxicology patient for the entire hospital stay in the ER and ICU.
Review of the Previous Edition:
"A major work...An excellent resource...Recommend to anyone involved in providing care for poisoned patients."
--JAMA

• Contains completely rewritten and reorganized coverage to encompass the background, pharmacology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of each toxin for clinical treatment throughout a patient's hospital stay.

Features a new editor--Michael Shannon, MD--whose experience in pediatric emergency medicine expands the text's coverage of pediatrics...and almost 60 new contributing experts who have made original contributions to their field, with a majority certified by the first approved subspecialty board in toxicology.

• Presents 10 new chapters that cover: pediatric resuscitation, antibiotic hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis, MAO inhibitors and the serotonin syndrome, herbal and alternative medicine, and thrombolytic therapy, and more. OUTSTANDING FEATURES:

Uses a clinical approachfor maximum clinical relevance, addressing how toxins affect humans, not animals.

• Incorporates the experience of many expert authors from numerous specialties for a Comprehensive review of toxicology and an authoritative overview of each specialty.

Contains colour plates of toxic natural life, including various snakes, mushrooms, plants, and marine life--a feature unique to this book.