OzEMedicine - Wiki for Australian Emergency Medicine Doctors

• internet links:
  • Micromedex Poisons Index - Victorian hospitals intranet access via IP
  • MIMS via IP address no logon needed within Western Health
  • MIMS Drug database - requires password
  • Toxbase - UK-based extensive poisons database
  • ToxINZ - Australasian toxicology and toxinology database - requires annual subscription
  • Toxicology and Poisons Network Australasia (TAPNA)
  • WikiTox - Clinical Toxicology Teaching Resource Project - a wikipedia on toxicology
  • Mushroom identification
  • Australian snake & spider bite / toxinology resources:
    • see toxinology
• Poisoning telephone advice in Victoria:
  • Victorian Poisons Information Centre - Austin Hospital) ph: 13 11 26 For Victoria, after 2100hrs, phone via Austin switchboard on 94965000
  • VicTAG register of life saving drugs in Victorian hospitals
• Poisoning advice NSW:
  • NSW Poisons Information Centre (13 11 26)
• Poisoning advice Sth Aust:
  • Clinical Toxicology - Women's & Childrens Hospital North Adelaide

see also: pharmacology main index

• general management of poisonings
• night club medicine
• alkali ingestion
• camphor ingestion
• eucalyptus and essential oil poisoning
• ethanol intoxication/poisoning
• ethylene glycol poisoning
• hydrocarbon poisoning
• herbicides
• insecticides
  • acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (organophosphate insecticides, etc)
• benzodiazepine antagonists eg. flumazenil
• amphetamines and related substances
• anticonvulsant overdose
• antihistamine overdose
• benzodiazepine overdose
• beta blocker overdose
• calcium channel blocker overdose
• chloral hydrate overdose
• colchicine overdose
• digoxin overdose/toxicity
• hydroflouric acid poisoning or burns
• hydrogen peroxide poisoning
• hydrogen sulphide gas poisoning
• iron poisoning
• lead poisoning
• mushroom poisoning
• neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• heroin or other opiate overdose
• paracetamol overdose - single ingestion
• paracetamol overdose - multi-dose ingestion
• phenothiazine overdose
• salicylate poisoning
• serotonin syndrome
• theophylline poisoning
• tricyclic antidepressant overdose
• Mx of warfarin excess or bleeding
• baclofen overdose

• Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology
• European Association of Poison Centres & Clinical Toxicology
• International Union of Toxicology
• Toxicology podcast - Medical Mimickers by Chris DeWitt (24min)
• Toxicology Handbook by Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little, Mike Cadogan - a recommended text for Australasian ED's