Description
The Toxicology Handbook provides an easily followed approach to the assessment and management of common, unusual and life-threatening poisonings. Separate sections address envenoming problems specific to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This easy-to-use handbook has a practical clinical focus and contains the authors' "Handy tips" and "Pitfalls" together with paediatric and pregnancy considerations.
Key Features
- Locally relevant information on bites stings and envenomation; first of its type.
- Paediatric and pregnant considerations
- Includes nursing considerations
- Clinical practical focus
- Written by physicians actively involved in managing patients with acute and common poisonings. Developed in close consultation with end users
- Handbook style
Contents
Author Information
By Lindsay Murray, MBBS, FACEM, Consultant, Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth; Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; Medical Director, WA Poisons Information Centre; Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, NSW Poisons Information Centre, Australia; Frank Daly, MBBS, FACEM, Director of Emergency Department and Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, Royal Perth Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, WA and NSW Poisons Information Centres, Australia; Mark Little, MBBS, DTM&H (Lond), FACEM, MPH&T, Consultant Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Perth; Clinical Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, WA and NSW Poisons Information Centres, Australia; and Mike Cadogan, MA (Oxon), MBChB, FACEM, Consultant Emergency Physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Emergency Department, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Australia
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