Clinical Approach to Poisoning & Drug Overdose

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Synopsis

This book Clinical Approach to Poisoning and Drug Overdose was long awaited by Medical Students. Postgraduates, General Practitioners, Casualty Medical Officers and ICCU doctors. This book has been prepared keeping in mind the necessity for guiding junior Doctors and Doctors in CCU to give first aid, investigative and give proper antidote for Drug Overdose. Detailed description have been given with charts and figures for Clinical Approach to Poisoning and Drug Overdose. Specific antidotes have also been mentioned. A chapter on “Envenomation by Snakes” have also been given. Initial assessment of the patients and appropriate antidote in saving patients, who have been brought to the emergency with history of consuming poison or drug for suicidal purpose or accidentally, have been discussed. One chapter have been added for Clinical Approach to Poisoning and Drug Overdose by pregnant women. This book will be definitely useful in the armamentarium of Medical Emergency Care.

Author

T.V. Devarajan Bsc MD FRCP DSc (Hons) FICP FACM FCCP (US) is an Emeritus professor of Medicine at the Aarupadai Veedu Medical College, Puducherry. He served as a teacher in Medicine under the guidance of “Padmashri” Professor K V Thiruvengadam for 28 years. Dr Devarajan has been a senior consultant and Physician at the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, since 1986. He has 28 publications to his credits. He is the author of several books titled “Medicine in Nutshell”, “Textbook of Medicine” (1st and 2nd editions), “Practical Clinical Medicine (4th Edition)”, “5000 MCQS in General Medicine (Parts I, II and III)”  and short case summaries and “A to Z: 1000 Pearls in Internel Medicine”. He has also authored a book for the patients titled “Medical Advice for Healthy Life”,which has been translated to many languages. He has served as a medicine examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in a few universities.

He is the recipient of the Dr. BC Roy National Award as an eminent medical teacher and the recipient of “Padmashri” for medicine, both from the Hon’ble President of India. He has obtainted his FRCP from the University of Glasglow,UK; DSc(Hons) from The Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University;and FICP from the Indian Medical Association(IMA), Association of Physicians of India(APICON), and the Indian College of Physicians. He was appointed as a member of the jury by the British Medical Journal to select doctors who can be nominated for the Oscar Award in Medicine.