Environmental Toxidromes: Notes from the Emergency Department, Part II: Poisonings

Description: What is a Toxidrome?  Join Naturalist and retired Emergency Department Physician Assistant, Robert Ayotte, for a primer on outdoor-related 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.  This evening, we will discuss Part II.  Throughout the series we'll review real emergency cases and track their management and outcomes. 

Environmental Medicine is a very broad field which 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.  This is a talk that he has given to the PA Fellowship Program at St. Joe's Hospital and to the Michigan Academy of Physician Assistants.