Emerging ToxicologySMACC, Chicago, 2015

Steven E. Aks, DO, FACMT, FACEPERtox@twitter.com

The Toxikon Consortium and Cook County Department of Emergency Medicine

Emerged Tox

History of tox

Evidence based vs Eminence Based

• Theoretically based?• Evidence based?• Theoretically informed and observationally

based?

Scandinavian Method

Clemmeson and Nilsson 1961

Rise of antidotes?

Phenylethylamines

Molly

25I-NBOMe

Is it Garcia or Gussow?

The obscure

Best Cases Ever 28

Okie, NEJM, Nov 2010

Tox in an epidemic

Not what we’re talking about

Naloxone Training

Save a life: No brainer!

New Technologies

EM News: Tox Rounds

Vigilance

Partnership

It’s All Tox!