Environmental Injuries and Toxicology

Selected Reading in Critical Care Pharmacology
Pharmacology and toxicology in pregnancy
Pharmacology and toxicology in old age
Pharmacology and toxicology in childhood

Specific Injuries and Complications of Polytrauma
Blast injury

Techniques in Critical Care Toxicology
Initial assessment: the toxicological primary survey
Decontamination following overdose
Use of activated charcoal in toxicology
Super-refractory vasodilated shock in toxicology
Toxicological uses of dialysis, haemoperfusion and plasmapheresis

Multisystem Diseases
Critical illness due to high altitude

Thermal Injuries and Drowning
Emergency management of severe burns
Fluid resuscitation for the burns patient
Airway burns and smoke inhalation injuries
Physiologic consequences of burns
Heat stroke
Hypothermia
Immersion submersion and drowning
Electrical injuries

Scenarios in Intensive Care Toxicology
A summary of toxins and their antidotes
Stereotypic toxidromes
Paracetamol toxicity
Propofol infusion syndrome
Toxic alcohols
Snake bite envenomation
Paraquat toxicity
Iron poisoning
Organophosphate poisoning
Digoxin toxicity
Salicylate toxicity
Tricyclic antidepressant overdose
Calcium channel blocker overdose
Cyanide toxicity
Beta blocker overdose
Sodium valproate toxicity
Theophylline toxicity
Malignant hyperthermia
Drug withdrawal states in the ICU
Corrosive ingestion
Sympathomimetic toxicity
Serotonin syndrome and neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Lithium toxicity