Lawn and Garden Product Safety
Chapter 30 Lawn and Garden Product Safety John H. Tegzes, Pomona, California Today’s lawns and gardens are rife with products for making grass greener, controlling weeds and pests, and conserving water….
PHARMACOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
Toxin Exposures in Small Animals
Chapter 21 Toxin Exposures in Small Animals Colleen M. Almgren, Bloomington, Minnesota Sharon L. Welch, Bloomington, Minnesota Pet Poison Helpline (PPH), a division of SafetyCall International, has been providing fee-for-service animal toxicology…
Top Ten Toxic and Nontoxic Household Plants
Chapter 28 Top Ten Toxic and Nontoxic Household Plants A. Catherine Barr, College Station, Texas Dogs and cats often eat lawn grass and then vomit, but otherwise they are not considered…
Over-the-Counter Drug Toxicosis
Chapter 27 Over-the-Counter Drug Toxicosis David C. Dorman, Raleigh, North Carolina According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) there are over 300,000 over-the-counter (OTC) drug products. These drugs represent…
Antidepressants and Anxiolytics
Chapter 26 Antidepressants and Anxiolytics Ahna G. Brutlag, Minneapolis, Minnesota Prescription antidepressants and anxiolytic drugs routinely rank among the most commonly prescribed agents in the United States. Additionally, they are commonly…
Intravenous Lipid Emulsion Therapy
Chapter 24 Intravenous Lipid Emulsion Therapy Justine A. Lee, Minneapolis, Minnesota Alberto L. Fernandez Mojica, St. Georges, West Indies, Grenada Intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE), also known as intravenous fat emulsion (IFE), has…
Drugs Used to Treat Toxicoses
Chapter 23 Drugs Used to Treat Toxicoses Sharon M. Gwaltney-Brant, Mahomet, Illinois Paracelsus, who some consider the “Father of Toxicology,” declared in the sixteenth century, “All substances are poisons; there is…
Human Drugs of Abuse and Central Nervous System Stimulants
Chapter 25 Human Drugs of Abuse and Central Nervous System Stimulants Petra A. Volmer, Champaign, Illinois Animal exposures to human drugs of abuse occur periodically in veterinary medicine. In many cases…
Facts and Fiction
Chapter 22 Urban Legends of Toxicology Facts and Fiction Frederick W. Oehme, Manhattan, Kansas William R. Hare, JR., Beltsville, Maryland Tens of thousands of potentially toxic exposures are reported to U.S. animal…
Ventilator Therapy for the Critical Patient
Chapter 11 Ventilator Therapy for the Critical Patient Julien Guillaumin, Columbus, Ohio In humans, modern mechanical ventilation (MV) took off during the Copenhagen poliomyelitis epidemic of 1952. Survival rates in the…
