Toxicologic Emergencies Diagnosis & Treatment Handbook: Evidence-Based Principles of Antidote Pharmacology, Poison Management, and Critical Resuscitation for ED Clinicians by Harry C. Harvey

The patient on the resuscitation bay stretcher took something an hour ago, the family does not know what, the QRS is widening, and the answer cannot wait. Toxicology guesses kill — the missed sodium channel block, the unrecognized cholinergic crisis, the anticoagulant ICH treated without the right reversal agent, the elderly patient given a Beers-listed drug that ended her independence. This handbook teaches the structured clinical reasoning that turns the undifferentiated overdose into the right antidote at the right dose at the right minute. Inside this book: • The Antidote Protocol Atlas — locate the right agent, the right dose, and the right tier (ED stock, pharmacy, Strategic National Stockpile) for every toxic exposure you meet in acute practice • Toxidrome-first thinking — recognize anticholinergic, cholinergic, sympathomimetic, opioid, sedative, and serotonergic syndromes before laboratory confirmation arrives Read more