3) Acute Poisoning and Drug
Toxicity (LO4)
(updated 4/30/21)
a. American Family
Physician -
“Primary Care For Person’s Who Inject Drugs” January 15, 2019
https://www.aafp.org/dam/brand/aafp/pubs/afp/issues/2019/0115/p109.pdf
“Urine Drug Tests: Ordering and Interpretation” January 1, 2019
https://www.aafp.org/dam/brand/aafp/pubs/afp/issues/2019/0101/p33.pdf
b. New England Journal
of Medicine -
“Toxic Alcohols” January 18, 2018 -
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1615295?articleTools=true
“Hazardous Chemical Emergencies and Poisonings” April 25, 2019
-
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1504690?articleTools=true
c. Up-to-Date
- “Initial Management of the
Critically Ill Adult with an Unknown Overdose”
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/initial-management-of-the-critically-ill-adult-with-an-unknown-overdose?search=drug+overdose&source=search_result&selectedTitle=2~150#H7708012
(REQUIRED
READING)
“General Approach to Drug Poisoning in Adults”
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/general-approach-to-drug-poisoning-in-adults?search=drug+overdose&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150#H11
(REQUIRED READING)
d. CDC
- “Understanding the Epidemic-Opioid
Overdose”
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html