Poisoned patients are a significant problem to the accident and emergency, acute medical and paediatric services. These patients require urgent expert advice regarding their treatment and further management. This work provides the essential information and current treatment guidelines so that the reader can rapidly acquire an understanding of the principles and practice required when dealing with acutely poisoned patients. The book should be useful for accident and emergency doctors, general medicine physicians, GPs, and paediatric physicians. It can also be used as a revision guide for the MRCP, FRCS (A&E) and MRCP (Paeds).

This book is in the Key Topics series.