Toxicologic Emergencies in Critical Care: An Evidence-Based ICU Manual for Toxidrome Recognition, Antidote Pharmacology, and Organ Support the Poisoned Patient

When the diagnosis is a poison, there's no time to page through three different references. This is the one book built to keep pace with a crashing patient. Most toxicology resources force a bad trade. General critical care textbooks devote a single chapter to poisoning and move on, leaving the ICU team to guess at antidote dosing under pressure. Toxicology references built for the outpatient or ED setting stop exactly where the sickest patients begin - they'll tell you to give the antidote, but not how to run the ventilator, titrate the pressor, or decide when VA-ECMO becomes the only option left. And the dosing tables scattered through most texts go stale the moment a guideline changes, with no clear signal to the reader that a number needs to be re-checked before it's trusted.Toxicologic Emergencies in Critical Care closes that gap. It's a 53-chapter, 11-part ICU manual built specifically for the poisoned patient who has already crossed from "overdose" into "critical care" - where recognition, antidote pharmacology, and organ support have to work together, not in separate books.Why this book beats the rest- Built for the ICU, not adapted to it. Every chapter carries the same clinical arc - recognition, critical care escalation, ICU course and disposition, and a dedicated antidote protocol atlas - so mechanical ventilation, vasoactive support, VA-ECMO, and extracorporeal removal are reasoned through for every toxin, not bolted on as an afterthought.- One compendium, not a scavenger hunt. Every dose, threshold, and monitoring interval in the book is collected into a single reference compendium at the back - alphabetical by antidote, cross-indexed by toxin class, and tiered by real-world availability - so a bedside decision never waits on a search through the chapter text.Inside this guide- Foundational approach to the poisoned patient - evaluation, toxidrome recognition, toxicokinetics, decontamination- Critical care of the poisoned patient - ventilation, vasoactive and inotropic support, VA-ECMO, extracorporeal removal- Drug-class toxicity across analgesics, cardiovascular agents, CNS and psychotropic drugs, substances of abuse, toxic alcohols, and endocrine and pharmaceutical agents- Environmental, industrial, and chemical toxins - carbon monoxide, cyanide, caustics, hydrocarbons, organophosphates, heavy metals- Envenomations and biological toxins - crotaline and elapid snakebite, arachnid and marine envenomation, plant and mushroom toxicity- Special clinical contexts - pediatric, geriatric, pregnancy and lactation, and CBRN emergenciesStop searching mid-code for the number you need. Add this manual to your unit's shelf today