Pediatric Poisonings: Recognition, Assessment, and Management

摘要: Poisoning represents one of the most common medical emergencies encountered in young children United States, and accounts for a significant proportion emergency room visits adolescent population. is persistent cause morbidity mortality adolescents. The scope toxic substances involved poisoning broad, requires health care providers to have an extensive knowledge signs symptoms specific therapeutic interventions antidotes. Most who ingest poisons suffer no harm; however, must recognize, assess, manage those exposures that are likely serious injury, illness, or death initiate appropriate management minimize physical injury may occur.