Toxinology - Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog

Paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity

December 6, 2011 By Edward Burns 1 Comment

A 49-year old lady presents to a rural Australian hospital with paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity. Can you predict whether she is likely to need liver transplantation (and therefore urgent aeromedical retrieval)?

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Hepatology, Toxicology, Toxinology Tagged With: conundrum, hepatotoxicity, liver failure, paracetamol, schiodt score, Toxicology

Toxicology Handbook, 2nd Edition

January 18, 2011 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

For a forthright review of the Toxicology Handbook 2nd edition, the LITFL team turned to an esteemed emergency medicine educator, Dr Trevor Jackson.

Filed Under: Blog News, Bloggers, Book Review, Envenomation, Featured, Reviews, Toxicology, Toxinology Tagged With: book, Book Review, mike cadogan, Reviews, Tox Handbook, Toxicology Handbook, Trevor Jackson

MicroGnomic Marine Envenoming

September 26, 2010 By Chris Nickson 1 Comment

My recent talk on marine envenoming is now alive in blog-post form thanks to the MicroGnome. It gives a brief overview of the clinical aspects of marine envenoming from an Australian perspective.

Filed Under: Emergency Medicine, Envenomation, lecture notes, Toxinology, Tropical Medicine, Wilderness Medicine Tagged With: blue-ringed octopus, box jellyfish, irukandji syndrome, marine envenoming, physalia, sea snake, stonefish, Toxinology

Paralysis and a head lump

September 23, 2010 By Chris Nickson 4 Comments

A 5 year old girl is unable to walk and is becoming progressively weaker. She also complained of a lump on her head. Can you make the diagnosis?

Filed Under: eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Toxinology, Wilderness Medicine Tagged With: Australia, emergency, envenoming, hard tick, ixodes, tick paralysis, Toxinology

Grand Rounds Killer Posts

August 3, 2010 By Mike Cadogan 14 Comments

It is with great honor that the Life in the Fast lane team and the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine host this weeks Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 45 on August 3rd 2010.

Filed Under: Arcanum Veritas, Australia, Authors, Blog News, Featured, Grand Rounds, Guest Post, Health, Health News, Toxicology, Toxinology, UCEM, Utopian Medicine, Who is Tagged With: deadly animals, killer posts

Seafood poisoning

June 2, 2010 By Chris Nickson 6 Comments

A couple present to the ED with vomiting and paraesthesiae after eating at a seafood restaurant. Can you help them by solving the seafood poisoning conundrum?

Filed Under: Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Toxicology, Toxinology Tagged With: amnestic, ciquatera, diarrhetic, dinoflagellate, neurotoxic, palytoxin, poisoning, scombroid, seafood, Seafood poisoning, tetrodotoxin, Toxicology, toxin

Getting into hot water

May 16, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

With ongoing climate change we may find soon find ourselves getting into hot water — both literally and metaphorico-toxinologically. Sea surface temperature appears to predict the arrival of the box jellyfish at Australia’s tropical beaches.

Filed Under: Australia, Envenomation, Health, Toxinology, Tropical Medicine, Wilderness Medicine Tagged With: Australia, box jellyfish, chironex fleckeri, climate change, envenoming, sea surface temperature, susan jacups

The Venomous Art of Spitting

May 15, 2010 By Chris Nickson 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?