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Poisoning: Recognition and Management in Critical Care

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6th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 1))

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Abstract

A drug is a substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper; if the rat dies it is a poison. paracelsus said that the difference between a drug and a poison was the dose, founding thereby the discipline of clinical pharmacology. Certainly today in the Critical Care Unit most instances of poisoning involve excessive amounts of drugs rather than exogenous nontherapeutic poisons.

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  1. W. L. Thompson
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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    J. L. Vincent

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Thompson, W.L. (1986). Poisoning: Recognition and Management in Critical Care. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) 6th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82801-0_67

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