PCTH 7315 - Clinical Toxicology

Meets with PCTH 5315. At the end of the course the student should be able to: Indentify the necessary pieces of information to analyze a poisoning, describe the services of the Poison Control Center and the role it plays in the practice of pharmacy, understand the principles involved in the general approach to the poisoned patient, describe the toxicology mechanism of action for each of the agents discussed, desribe the typical presentation following a poisoning with each specific agent, and outline a specific management plan for each of the agents discussed.