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Clinical , Toxicology , Toxins

Dangerous Elements: The Story of Lead and its Toxic Effects

10/15/2014 John Morrison, MD , Elizabeth Gorbe, MD
Dangerous Elements: The Story of Lead and its Toxic Effects A brief history In the roaring twenties, New York City was known to have the United States' premier forensic toxicology lab. Appointed in 1
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Clinical , Pediatric EM , Medications , Toxicology

Small, but Deadly: Nine Pediatric Toxic Ingestions that Can be Fatal at Low Doses

10/15/2014 Jason Chu, MD , Danish Malik, MD
Small, but Deadly: Nine Pediatric Toxic Ingestions that Can be Fatal at Low Doses Part 1. Single-Pill Killers Introduction In this issue of EM Resident we present Part One in a two-part series on tox
Pediatric EM , Toxicology , Toxins

Scorpion's Sting

8/14/2014
Scorpion's Sting Christine Huang, MD, EM Pediatric Resident, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Background There are over 1,500 species of scorpions worldwide, of which only about 50 are dangerous eno
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Toxicology , Medications , Critical Care

Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis

8/14/2014 Jenelle Holst, MD , Jason Hoppe, DO
Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis Case A 52-year-old woman with a history of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, neuropathy, and frequent urinary tract infections arrives by ambulance for prog
Critical Care , Toxicology

Understanding Alcoholic Ketoacidosis

4/15/2014 Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH , Charles O'Connell, MD
Understanding Alcoholic Ketoacidosis A 49-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse presents to the ED with complaints of generalized abdominal pain and vomiting for the last 36 hours. The patien

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