- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Immunotoxicology and immune responses
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Coffee research and impacts
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
Iron Mountain (United States)
2025
Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center
2025
University of South Florida
2017-2024
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono
2018-2024
Lehigh Valley Health Network
2017-2024
University of Arizona
2021
HealthPartners
2021
Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services
2020
Lehigh University
2020
American College of Medical Toxicology
2020
An epidemic of drug overdose deaths has led to calls for programs and policies limit misuse diversion opioid medications. Any parallel call consider the risk iatrogenic addiction when treating pain been muted in comparison. We have moved beyond questions nonmedical use, abuse, highlight role prescription opioids causing even prescribed used appropriately. Unfortunately, current evidence is insufficient, a rapid expansion longitudinal research urgently needed guide clinicians balancing need...
Adrenergic β-antagonists, commonly known as β-blockers, are prescribed for many indications including hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmias, and migraines. Metoprolol is a moderately lipophilic β-blocker that in overdose causes direct myocardial depression leading to bradycardia, hypotension, the potential cardiovascular collapse. We describe case of 59-year-old man who intentionally ingested ~7.5 g metoprolol tartrate. Initial treatment bradycardia hypotension included glucagon,...
For many years, gender differences have been recognized as important factors in the etiology, pathophysiology, comorbidities, and treatment needs outcomes associated with use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco. However, little is known about how these gender-specific affect ED utilization; responses to ED-based interventions; for substance barriers accessing care among patients ED; or after an alcohol-, drug-, tobacco-related visit. As part 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on...
The use of naloxone to reverse a potentially fatal opioid overdose is harm reduction strategy that reduces mortality and increases the potential for referral substance treatment affected individuals. In setting outreach performed by street medicine team, we aimed determine effectiveness an educational intervention involving distribution accompanied brief instructive session about opioids, overdose, medication administration.Our team distributed 200 kits clinicians volunteers involved in...
Objective Adolescent intentional ingestions remain a significant public health problem in the United States with little research to date on over-the-counter or prescription medicines that adolescents abuse. These data are important for anticipatory guidance by primary care providers, preventive health, and poison center outreach. Methods This was an observational study using American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data System. The population consisted all cases patients aged...