Flumazenil and naloxone are considered to be pharmacologically ideal antidotes. By
competitive binding at the molecular target receptors, they are highly specific antagonists of …

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System Pharmacists (ASHP) published its first Statement on Pharmacy Services to the
Emergency Department (ED) in 2008. 1 Best practices continue to evolve since then with …

We provide recommendations for stocking of antidotes used in emergency departments
(EDs). An expert panel representing diverse perspectives (clinical pharmacology, medical …

Purpose Appropriate therapies for commonly encountered poisonings, medication
overdoses, and other toxicological emergencies are reviewed, with discussion of …

Patients receiving high-dose methotrexate (HDMTX) for malignancies are exposed to
diverse complications, including nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, mucositis, myelotoxicity …

Purpose In 2008, ASHP published a statement on services that the pharmacy department
should provide to the ED. 26 These guidelines extend beyond the scope of that document …

Introduction For acute digoxin poisoning, it has been recommended to give bolus doses of
10–20 vials or potentially larger than needed doses calculated from dose ingested or the …

Medical toxicology and infectious disease are not specialties traditionally associated with
one another. Pandemics, however, have a way of disrupting convention, and in this era of …

Background Mortality in patients with acute onset of impaired consciousness is high: as
many as 10% do not survive. The spectrum of differential diagnoses is wide, and more than …