Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug Overdose

摘要: Interest in drug overdosage has changed recent years, because of the extension abuse to all segments society, advent new drugs with specific actions, widespread availability serum concentrations, and emphasis being placed on toxicology by relatively field Emergency Medicine. Misuse therapeutic agents resulted types overdoses requiring treatments. Since most are not life threatening, good results may be obtained many cases without making a diagnosis. However, severe unusual necessitate diagnosis treatment. Toxicology have shown that mistakes occur when is made clinical grounds only. Establishing preliminary providing rational therapy requires working knowledge pharmacology, including information about actions various drugs, their important chemical kinetic properties, toxic manifestations.