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Poisoning (cont.)

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Author: John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

References:

www.poison.org; "What is Ipecac Syrup."

National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, "Beta blockers overdose."

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: James S Cohen, MD, Consulting Staff, James Cohen, PC.

Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Quinn, MD, Director of Research Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine University of California at San Francisco Medical Center.


Last Editorial Review: 11/25/2008

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