Toxicology and Treatment of Poisonings

For acute poisonings, contact your Regional Poison Centre.
The Poison Centres can be found on page Y2 of the CPS.

Websites:

Chemical Exposures

• Position Statements (American Academy of Clinical Toxicology)

Environmental Concerns

• Environmental and Workplace Health (Health Canada)
• Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health (MedlinePlus)

Food Poisoning

• Bad Bug Book (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
  
• Foodborne Illness (MedlinePlus)

General Poisoning

• Poisoning (MedlinePlus)
•  Emergency Treatment of Poisoning (BNF, registration required)
  

• Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System (Government of Canada)
• Plants Poisonous to Livestock and other Animals (Cornell University)
• The Poison Plant Patch (Nova Scotia Museum)

• Poisoning (Karolinska Institutet)
• Poison Control & Toxicology (RPhWorld.com)
  
  Professional Organizations
  
• American Association of Poison Control Centers
• International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology
• International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
• International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS): Poisoning Prevention and Management 
• Society of Toxicology

• ToxFAQs (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
• American Academy of Clinical Toxicology
• Canadian Association of Poison Control Centres
  
• Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
  

• TOXNET (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
• Household Products Database (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
  

•  Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons (Klaassen, 7th ed. 2007) - $
•  Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons (Moffat et al. 3rd ed. 2003) - $
• General and Applied Toxicology (Ballantyne et al. 3rd ed. 2009) - $
•  Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies (Nelson et al. 9th ed. 2010 ) - $
• Medical Toxicology (Dart, 3rd ed. 2003) - $
• Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances: Foods, Fungi, Medicinal Herbs, Plants, and Venomous Animals (Barceloux, 2008) - $
  
• Pediatric Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Poisoned Child (Erickson et al. 2005) - $
•  Poisoning & Drug Overdose (Olson, 5th ed. 2006) - $

• Micromedex Healthcare Series - see Poisindex, Martindale, Identidex and TOMES (Toxicologic Occupational Medicine and Environmental Series) - $

$ - Resource is not freely available on the Internet
links to electronic resource available online for Dal-affiliated persons