Friday, 22 July 2005, 11:34 am
Press Release: College for Emergency Medicine
Poisoning: are current treatments best?
Friday 22 July 2005
Over the years, poisoning has been variously treated by attempting to bring the poison back up, rushing it through the body, or binding it in the gut so that it doesn't spread to other body parts.
And relatively recently, treatments such as syrup of ipecac, orogastric tubes, and activated charcoal have been largely discarded.
Activated charcoal is still used, however, for potentially serious poisoning if the patient is treated within an hour of ingestion.
At the Winter Symposium of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine being held at the Millennium Hotel in Queenstown NZ, Professor Mike Ardagh, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will canvass whether the current treatment of poisoning is in fact the best.
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