Modern Medical Toxicology 5th Edition

Modern Medical Toxicology 5th Edition

Modern Medical Toxicology, Fifth Edition by V. V. Pillay is a comprehensive reference devoted to the diagnosis and management of poisoning, drug overdose and toxicological emergencies. Published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, it provides clinically relevant and practical information for physicians, emergency-care professionals, toxicologists and medical students.

Every commonly encountered xenobiotic—including poisons, toxins, medicines and chemicals—is discussed systematically. Coverage generally includes its source and physical characteristics, toxicokinetics, toxic dose, signs and symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options and relevant forensic or medico-social considerations.

This completely revised edition emphasizes practical management of poisoned and overdosed patients. Numerous colour images, tables, boxes and bulleted lists make the extensive information easier to understand, locate and apply during clinical practice.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Indian reference devoted to medical toxicology
• More than 25 years of continuous editions and reprints
• Completely revised and updated fifth edition
• Covers commonly encountered poisons, toxins, medicines and chemicals
• Explains sources and physical characteristics of toxic substances
• Discusses toxicokinetics and mechanisms of toxicity
• Provides information on toxic and fatal doses
• Explains clinical manifestations and diagnostic methods
• Provides practical guidance on treatment and patient management
• Discusses relevant forensic and medico-social issues
• Contains approximately 500 colour images
• Includes numerous tables, boxes and bulleted summaries
• Provides practical tips for managing poisoning and overdose
• Includes recent developments in diagnostic toxicology
• Covers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe poisoning
• Discusses intravenous lipid-emulsion therapy
• Includes recent references for further reading and research
• Useful as both a clinical reference and examination resource

Major Topics Covered

• General principles of medical toxicology
• Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics
• Clinical evaluation of poisoned patients
• Laboratory and analytical toxicology
• Initial stabilisation and supportive care
• Decontamination and activated charcoal
• Enhanced elimination of toxic substances
• Antidotes and antidotal therapy
• Drug and pharmaceutical overdose
• Pesticide and insecticide poisoning
• Organophosphorus and carbamate poisoning
• Rodenticide and herbicide poisoning
• Household and industrial chemicals
• Corrosive and hydrocarbon poisoning
• Alcohol and toxic-alcohol poisoning
• Carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning
• Heavy-metal poisoning
• Plant and mushroom poisoning
• Food-related toxicological emergencies
• Snakebite and snake envenomation
• Scorpion stings and other arthropod poisoning
• Marine and aquatic envenomation
• Substance misuse and drugs of abuse
• Pediatric poisoning
• Poisoning during pregnancy
• Occupational and environmental toxicology
• Forensic and medicolegal toxicology
• ECMO and extracorporeal treatment of poisoning
• Intravenous lipid-emulsion therapy

Recommended For

• General physicians
• Emergency-medicine physicians
• Critical-care specialists and intensivists
• Medical toxicologists
• Forensic-medicine specialists
• Clinical pharmacologists
• Pediatricians
• Emergency and critical-care residents
• Postgraduate forensic-medicine students
• MBBS students studying toxicology
• Poison-control and analytical-toxicology professionals
• Hospitals, medical colleges and institutional libraries

Book Information

Buy Modern Medical Toxicology in Bangladesh

Order the original Modern Medical Toxicology 5th Edition by V. V. Pillay from Century Publishers. We supply original and imported toxicology, forensic medicine, emergency medicine and specialist medical books to students, doctors, hospitals, institutions and libraries throughout Bangladesh.