Course information

The course will provide a series of multiple-choice question based cases in common and life-threatening clinical poisonings typically encountered in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department environment. The cases will feature multimedia content to engage the participant. Faculty for the course will primarily be drawn from Harvard Medical School (HMS) associated hospitals. The core faculty will be supplemented by a small number of selected external faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized in the field of contribution.

OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Teach the general principles of the care of the poisoned patient.
• Teach specific and crucial points of pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of particular poisonings.
• Introduce the important medical literature which serves as the underpinning for the rational practice of toxicology.
• Case-based clinical problem solving (a multiple choice question based format will be used for the cases).

CLINICAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Summarize the diagnosis and management of the following common clinical problems:

• Aspirin poisoning
• Acetaminophen poisoning
• Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy) poisoning, particularly Ecstasy-induced hyponatremia
• Amanita mushroom poisoning
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Digoxin poisoning

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Stephen J. Traub, MD, is the Co-Director of the Division of Toxicology in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Traub�s research interests include the diagnosis and treatment of body packers (those who smuggle large quantities of drugs by internal concealment) and the pathophysiology of drugs of abuse.