Staff Articles
IPC staff are leaders in the field of preventing poisoning harm. Sharing their expertise is a key component of poison prevention. Learn more from our staff experts in the nearly 70 peer-reviewed journal articles below.
2024
- Beyond One Pill Can Kill: A Decade of Pediatric Deaths Reported to America's Poison Centers
- Notes from the Field: Seizures, Hyperthermia, and Myocardial Injury in Three Young Adults Who Consumed Bromazolam Disguised as Alprazolam
2023
- 2022 Annual Report of the National Poison Data System (NPDS) from America's Poison Centers: 40th Annual Report
- Cannabis Toxicity in Children and Adolescent
- Pediatric Edible Cannabis Exposures and Acute Toxicity: 2017-2021
- Amlodipine fatality trends
- Immediate methylene blue is critical for sodium nitrite ingestions
2022
- Unintentional ethylene glycol ingestions in children
- Welcome to America's Poison Centers
- Management of Toxicological Emergencies in the School Setting: Part 1 An Overview for School Nurses
- Management of Toxicological Emergencies in the School Setting: An Overview for School Nurses Part 2
- Management of Toxicological Emergencies in the School Setting: An Overview for School Nurses Part 3
2021
- Sodium Nitrite Ingestion: an Emerging Trend in Suicide Attempts Shared via Online Communities
- Rising incidence and high mortality in intentional sodium nitrite exposures reported to US poison centers
- Severe Vitamin K-dependent Coagulopathy from Rodenticide-contaminated Synthetic Cannabinoids: Emergency Department Presentations
- Unilateral angioedema
2020
- Public Health Surveillance for the Prevention of Pesticide-Related Illness in Illinois
- The Public Health Response to a Large Poisoning Outbreak Involving an Illicit Substance: Synthetic Cannabinoids Contaminated With a Long-Acting Anticoagulant Rodenticide, Illinois, March-July, 2018
- Pediatric poison center exposures and outcomes in the context of grandparent supervision
- Salicylate toxicity following undetectable concentrations
2019
- An outbreak of severe coagulopathy from synthetic cannabinoids tainted with Long-Acting anticoagulant rodenticides
- Tramadol, naloxone, and seizures
- ADB-FUBINACA Body Packer
2018
- Management of severe bupropion poisoning with intravenous lipid emulsion
- The Beef Jerky Blues: Methemoglobinemia From Home Cured Meat
2017
- Treatment of Benzodiazepine Dependence
- The POPOP (puffing on pulse oximeter probe) sign of ethanol withdrawal
2016
- Snapchat Toxicology: Social Media and Suicide
- Digoxin-Specific Antibody Fragment Dosing: A Case Series
- Those Salicylate Cases-How Sweet Are They?
- Forgoing the Folate?-Contemporary Recommendations for Methanol Poisoning and Evidence Review
2015
2014
- The association between U.S. Poison Center assistance and length of stay and hospital charges
- Nutmeg poisonings: a retrospective review of 10 years experience from the Illinois Poison Center, 2001-2011
- Emerging drugs of abuse
- The toxic trio: valproic acid, lithium, and carbamazepine
2013
- Management of Unintentional Methanol Ingestions – Kids Aren’t Little Adults?
- Lipid rescue 911: Are poison centers recommending intravenous fat emulsion therapy for severe poisoning?
- A 9-state analysis of designer stimulant, "bath salt," hospital visits reported to poison control centers
- Direct comparison of 20-hour IV, 36-hour oral, and 72-hour oral acetylcysteine for treatment of acute acetaminophen poisoning
- Hyperinsulin therapy for calcium channel antagonist poisoning: a seven-year retrospective study
2012
- Hazardous material events in schools and how the regional poison control center can help
- Can a poison center overdose guideline safely reduce pediatric emergency department visits for unintentional β-blocker ingestions?
- Melanotan II injection resulting in systemic toxicity and rhabdomyolysis
- Variability in hyperbaric oxygen treatment for acute carbon monoxide poisoning
- Dropping acid at school: hydrochloric acid exposures in chemistry class
2011
- Dose Dependent Response to Cyclodextrin Infusion in a Rat Model of Verapamil Toxicity
- Hyperinsulinemia Euglycemia for Management of Severe Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose
- Self-treatment of acetaminophen overdose with dietary-supplement acetylcysteine
2010
- Double Peak and Prolonged Absorption After Large Acetaminophen Extended Release and Diphenhydramine Ingestion
- Whole bowel irrigation and the hemodynamically unstable calcium channel blocker overdose: primum non nocere.
- Third-degree AV block from extended-release diltiazem ingestion in a nine-month-old.
- Lepiota subincarnata J.E. Lange induced fulminant hepatic failure presenting with pancreatitis.
- Legal liability as poison center consultant.
- Adenosine and caffeine-induced paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
- Unilateral Blindness Following Acute Methanol Poisoning.
- Effect of Cyclodextrin Infusion in a Rat Model of Verapamil Toxicity.
- Can acute overdose of metformin lead to lactic acidosis?
- Drugs of abuse: the highs and lows of altered mental states in the emergency department.
- Computerized N-Acetylcysteine Physician Order Entry by Template Protocol for Acetaminophen Toxicity.
- Pseudorenal Insufficiency With Isopropyl Alcohol Ingestion.
2009
- Cocaine: history, social implications, and toxicity--a review.
- Hepatotoxicity in an infant following supratherapeutic dosing of acetaminophen for twenty-four hours
- Levosimendan for calcium channel blocker poisoning in humans.
- Parenteral ophthalmic tropicamide or cyclopentolate protects rats from lethal organophosphate poisoning.
- Hazardous brick cleaning.
- Public health response to puffer fish (Tetrodotoxin) poisoning from mislabeled product.
- Use of clonidine in the prevention and management of neonatal abstinence syndrome.
- Zolpidem Misuse With Other Medications or Alcohol Frequently Results in Intensive Care Unit Admission.
- Physical and chemical restraints.
- A complicated hospitalization following dilute ammonium chloride ingestion.
- Long-term psychiatric consequences from carbon monoxide exposure: progression of endogenous cause or toxicant effect?
- Death by polonium-210: lessons learned from the murder of former Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko.
2008
- Hospitalization for caffeine abuse is associated with abuse of other pharmaceutical products.
- Case files of the medical toxicology fellowship at the toxikon consortium in Chicago: cocaine-associated wide-complex dysrhythmias and cardiac arrest - treatment nuances and controversies.
- Fentanyl epidemic in Chicago, Illinois and surrounding Cook County.
- Hospitalization for caffeine abuse is associated with abuse of other pharmaceutical products.
- Metoclopramide versus hydromorphone for the emergency department treatment of migraine headache.
- Response to self-poisoning with pet medications.
- Carbon dioxide-induced narcosis due to dry ice exposure in a patient with sleep apnea.
- The disease of addiction: origins, treatment, and recovery. Foreword.
- Topical pyrethrin toxicity leading to acute-onset stuttering in a toddler.
- Status epilepticus due to tiagabine ingestion.