Podcast – The Poison Review

Podcast – The Poison Review episodes:

• 06.11.2017

  Episode #15: How easy is it to get addicted to opioids?

  A recent article in the New York Times reported that there were likely more than 59,000 deaths from opioid overdose in the United States during the year 2016, an increase of 19% over the number of such deaths in 2015....

  
• 03.30.2017

  TPR Podcast Episode #14: VX and the Assassination of Kim Jong-Nam

  When Kim Jong Nam — the half-brother of Korean leader Kim Jong Un — was assassinated in February while waiting for a flight at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, attention was focused on one of the deadliest chemicals...

  
• 01.19.2017

  TPR Podcast Episode #13: Naloxone in the Age of Carfentanil

  In this “Lucky 13” episode of the TPR podcast, Steven and Leon discuss naloxone, and address the following issues: 1) Does the concept of a “heroin overdose patient” have meaning anymore in this age of U-47700, fentanyl, and carfentanil? 2) Given the adulteration of...

  
• 09.26.2016

  TPR Podcast Episode #12: 25 years of weird and wacky toxicology papers

  The Poison Review started as a hard-copy newsletter and accompanying tape cassette in the summer of 1992, when George H.W. Bush was President. In this episode of the TPR podcast, Tim Ericsson, Steve Aks and I look back at some...

  
• 03.19.2016

  TPR Podcast Episode #11: Google Glass and the Toxicologist

  TPR Podcast Episode #11: Google Glass and the Toxicologist, with Dr. Peter Chai   Written by Leon Gussow MD FACMT   In this episode, Steve Aks and I talk to Dr. Peter Chai, a senior medical toxicology fellow at the University of Massachusetts in...

  
• 12.17.2015

  TPR Podcast Episode #10: Synthetic cannabinoids, “Crazy Monkey,” and a man and his dog

  In this episode of the Podcast, we discuss synthetic cannabinoids, the TuSH exam, and the tender story of a man and his dog. Enjoy!

  
• 06.01.2015

  Episode #9: TPR Podcast on hemodialysis in poisonings

  In this episode, the team discusses recommendations regarding initiation of hemodialysis from the Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning (ExTRIP Workgroup). Specific agents covered include methanol, lithium, acetaminophen, and theophylline. Also, we reveal the real identify of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...

  
• 03.01.2015

  TPR Podcast Episode #8: Pearls from NACCT

  This episode of the TPR podcast will discuss pearls from some of our favorite posters at the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology conference in New Orleans. Some of the questions we'll tackle include: * Is "sudden sniffing...