EM C8

Managing patients with acute toxic ingestion or exposure

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key features: focus on the decontamination, assessment, and management of the poisoned patient, and coordination of multidisciplinary care with other services (toxicology, critical care, nephrology, psychiatry etc)

assessment plan

• direct observation or case discussion by supervising emergency physician, toxicologist, or resident in TP - Transition to Practice
• Form 1
  • cp: Acetaminophen toxidrome, Sympathomimetic toxidrome, Opioid toxidrome, Antidepressant toxicity, Toxic bradycardia
• collect 15 observations of each clinical presentation
• at least 5 clinical observations