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Emerging ToxicologySMACC, Chicago, 2015
Steven E. Aks, DO, FACMT, [email protected]
The Toxikon Consortium and Cook County Department of Emergency Medicine
Emerged Tox
History of tox
Evidence based vs Eminence Based
• Theoretically based?• Evidence based?• Theoretically informed and observationally
based?
Scandinavian Method
Clemmeson and Nilsson 1961
Rise of antidotes?
Phenylethylamines
Molly
25I-NBOMe
Is it Garcia or Gussow?
The obscure
Best Cases Ever 28
Okie, NEJM, Nov 2010
Tox in an epidemic
Not what we’re talking about
Naloxone Training
Save a life: No brainer!
New Technologies
EM News: Tox Rounds
Vigilance
Partnership
It’s All Tox!