What you'll learn

  • Define the general principles of caring for the poisoned patient
  • Differentiate specific and crucial points of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of particular poisonings
  • Discuss important medical literature that serves as the underpinning for the rational practice of toxicology
  • Develop case-based clinical problem-solving skills
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Course description

This HMS CME Online course is targeted to emergency medicine physicians as well as other clinicians who practice in an acute care setting (e.g., internists, family practice physicians, pediatricians, hospitalists, and intensivists). Participants will have an opportunity to review and advance their knowledge of current practice patterns and recent advances in clinical emergency medicine.

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Course outline

  • Challenging Cases in Toxicology is organized as follows:

    Case 1: Intentional Overdose

     

    Case 2: Unresponsive Patient

     

    Case 3: Nausea, Vomiting, and Mild Abdominal Pain

     

    Case 4: Depressed Male Found Unresponsive

     

    Case 5: Attempted Suicide after a Breakup

     

    Case 6: Weakness, Vomiting and Bradycardia

     

    Case 7: Found Down at Work

     

    Case 8: Female Transferred from Endoscopy Suite

     

    Case 9: Attempted Suicide by Medication

     

    Case 10: Found Unresponsive in a Hotel Room

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Associated Schools

  • Harvard Medical School

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