This is Season 2 of the Toxicology podcast series that Seattle Childrens' Toxicologist Suzan Mazor, MD and I put together. This three episode season turns its focus to drugs of abuse - beginning with this episode on opioid toxicity. So, slow your breathing, constrict your pupils, and focus in for the return of #ToxTuesdays.
This is episode four of season one of the Toxicology series that Suzan Mazor, the Medical Director for Toxicology at Seattle Children's, and I are putting together. This episode focuses on a worrisome intentional and accidental ingestion - salicylates. Learn about diagnosis, management, and more!
This is episode three of season one of the Toxicology series that Suzan Mazor, the Medical Director for Toxicology at Seattle Children's, and I are putting together. This episode focuses on one of the most common intentional ingestions - Acetaminophen.
This is episode 2 of season one of the Toxicology series that Suzan Mazor, the Medical Director for Toxicology at Seattle Children's, and I are putting together. This follow up episode focuses on a decontamination and elimination in the poisoned pediatric patient and offers many pearls that will serve as a foundation for upcoming episodes - including why Ipecac is no longer prescribed to every 4 month old!
It's finally here - Tox Tuesdays - the Toxicology podcast series starts here, with Episode 1 of Season 1 - featuring Suzan Mazor from Seattle Children's talking about the general approach to the poisoned child.
I have partnered with Suzan Mazor, MD, the Toxicology Medical Director at Seattle Children's to deliver season one of our Toxicology focused podcast series. Tox Tuesdays will include brief, focused, high yield yield information that will help you manage children who are intentionally - and unintentionally - exposed to medications and environmental poisons.
This post details why some ethanol levels may be "positive" with a low reading of 3-8 mg/dL even if the patient didn't drink any alcohol This could have clinical/child abuse type ramifications. Read: But he didn’t drink any alcohol?!?
Serotonin syndrome and Neuroleptic malignant syndrome aren't really the same thing are they? But what if they are? No they're not. Maybe?
Though the PEMPix presentation is scheduled for Saturday 9/16/17 at the AAP NCE in Chicago there were so many great cases this year that I decided to share three of them online prior to the conference. This is the first case "Yellow Hands." All three cases will also be available at PEMPix.com.
Kids get into a lot of stuff - sometimes they get into grandpa's medicine. If that medicine is a beta blocker then the kid can be sick. That's what this edition of PEMBlog Briefs is all about.