What is a Toxidrome?  Join Naturalist and retired Emergency Department Physician Assistant, Robert Ayotte, for a primer on potentially toxic exposures common to the Great Lakes Region.  This is a 3-part series that focuses on; Part I Allergies and Rashes, Part II: Poisonings, and Part III Bites and Envenomations.  Part III focuses on animal poisonings and envenomations with reference to caterpillars, ants, bee and wasp stings, spider and tick bites, scorpion stings, snake and turtle bites, and more.  Throughout the series, we review real emergency cases and track their management and outcomes.  

Environmental Medicine is a very broad field that addresses temperature-related conditions and injuries, elevation sickness, chemical toxins, lightning strikes, infectious diseases, as well as allergies/rashes, poisonings, bites, and envenomations.  For more information, see The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) (aaemonline.org) 

Presenter: Robert Ayotte is a naturalist, and former Emergency Department Physician Assistant with 28 years of experience treating emergency patients in both Traverse City and Chelsea, MI.