by Jon Cole In some ways, you never outgrow your training. Before my medical toxicology fellowship, I completed a residency in emergency medicine. It is my primary specialty and practice, and it’s by far the most common place I encounter most of the patients I see. As opioids have become the primary cause of poisoning […]
Tox and Hound – Color Me Blue
by Christine Murphy Alternative Uses for Methylene Blue I like finding alternative uses for existing antidotes. Antidote research is very limited – let’s be honest, there isn’t a huge market out there for most antidotes. So, anytime an existing antidote’s use can be expanded to other indications, I think that is a win. Methylene blue […]
Tox and Hound – Up in Smoke
by Trevonne Thompson The Outbreak of Electronic Cigarette Use and Pulmonary Injury There is currently an outbreak of pulmonary injury associated with electronic cigarette use. As of October 8, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 1,299 cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use from 49 states and 1 U.S. […]
Tox and Hound – Don’t Wernicke’s, B(1) Happy
by Meghan Spyres You take the perilous sign out of a 55-year-old patient with alcohol use disorder (AUD) who came to the ED intoxicated. “He’s just metabolizing” your colleague tells you. A few hours go by and he is now awake and asking to leave. The nurse road tests him and he can walk, but […]
Tox and Hound – Plumbus Amongus
by Diane Calello Washington, DC. Flint. Pittsburgh. Detroit. Newark. Every time you turn around, another US city develops a drinking water crisis stemming from the discovery of elevated lead levels. While the water crisis in Flint, Michigan captured national attention when it became clear that increased water lead levels were reaching the city’s children, it […]
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