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25 lis 2012 · This document discusses drug poisoning and includes definitions, types of common drugs that cause poisoning like analgesics, barbiturates and benzodiazepines, narcotics. It covers topics like evaluation, management, and a case scenario of a child ingesting unknown tablets.
- Poisoning | PPT - SlideShare
Poisoning can occur through ingestion, inhalation,...
- Drug Overdose and its Management - Antidotes | PPT - SlideShare
Organophosphate poisoning is a significant global health...
- Poisoning | PPT - SlideShare
19 paź 2018 · Poisoning can occur through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection. Common causes of poisoning include chemicals, household products, drugs, pesticides, plants, and animal bites. Symptoms and treatment depend on the specific toxin.
6 lut 2019 · Organophosphate poisoning is a significant global health problem causing millions of hospitalizations annually. This document discusses drug overdose, including its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Drug overdose occurs when more of a drug is taken than is medically recommended, potentially leading to poisoning.
Overdose education critical (e.g., not using alone, risks of polysubstance use – things Rose flagged). In the US, seeing growing push towards drug checking services with the issues around unwitting consumption of high potency fentanyl analogues.
In the United States from 1999-2018, nearly 450,000 people have died from prescription and illicit opioid overdoses.1 An important strategy in preventing overdose deaths is to increase access and availability of the drug naloxone, an opioid antagonist that quickly and effectively reverses opioid overdose effects.
22 lip 2014 · By the end of this session you should be able to: define drug toxicity; know the types of toxicity; comprehend the reasons that may lead to toxicity of drugs; and recognize the toxic effects of drugs in the body organ systems.
Primary prevention of toxicity, such as parental education, drug storage in child-resistant containers, or the use of computerized adverse drug effects programs by medical professionals, are the optimal means of reducing the incidence of poisoning.
