For a forthright review of the Toxicology Handbook 2nd edition, the LITFL team turned to an esteemed emergency medicine educator, Dr Trevor Jackson.
MicroGnomic Marine Envenoming
September 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Getting into hot water
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The Venomous Art of Spitting
May 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Some of the cobras are venom spitters. Targeting the eyes of their enemies they can cause a chemical conjunctivitis and blindness. How do they do this?
Chironex fleckeri envenoming
April 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Legless Lizard?
February 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you go to enough talks on snakebite envenoming you’ll be familiar with the part of the talk where the speaker asks:
“How can you tell this is a legless lizard?”
There is always someone who replies:
“Because it doesn’t have legs.”
Snakebite Envenoming Challenge
February 11, 2010 By 6 Comments
So you sailed through the toxidrome challenge did you? How are you with elapids? Let’s see how you fare on the ‘Australian Snakebite Envenoming Challenge’…
How this works: For each of the six types of venomous Australian snake see if you can describe the classic findings for each of the possibly clinical effects listed below – click on the link to show/hide the answer.
Never Kiss a Jellyfish
January 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Although I ‘love’ jellyfish from the point of view of a clinician, I avoid getting close and personal’ with them. Recently I plunged face first into a jellyfish
Necrotic arachnidism
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Stonefish in moving pictures
September 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We’ve already seen the multi-tentacled box jellyfish and the cause of Irukandji syndrome in moving pictures – now its time for the stonefish. From “Ocean’s deadliest creatures” with Steve Irwin and Phillippe Cousteau – the stonefish footage starts at 2:50 min: Alternatively, check out Billy Connolly’s take on the dangers of Australian sea life, with [...]
