Comprehensive Reviews in Toxicology: For Emergency Clinicians

Revised and updated, this edition covers general principles of overdose management; the automonic nervous system, neurotransmitters and drugs; drugs used in psychiatry; cardiac drugs; agents that burn; gases and abnormal haemoglobin formation; the alcohols; drugs of abuse; analgesics; metals; environmental toxins; toxins in food; and miscellaneous agents.; This edition contains 30 additional chapters, with a complete revision of existing chapters; information covering such venomous creatures as snakes, spiders, scorpions and ants; a new chapter on drug interactions; and expanded coverage of cardiac medications, drugs of abuse, inhalational agents, pharmacokinetics for the paediatric and geriatric populations; and autonomous nervous system drugs.