apamt2013.com Ultrasound workshop @ESEM Nov 21 tox conf.UAE EM faculty teaching hands-on US in brief small group sessions. Great!

apamt2013.com Dhow dinner cruise on Dubai creek 17:30 today. Deets posted on home page.

apamt2013.com steroids/hemoperfusion improve paraquat poisoning outcomes-China.Orogastric lavage benefit in OP poisoning-Sri Lanka

Nick Buckley- RAVE-II Redback spider antivenom= little risk of hypersensitivity but little effect on pain scores. Not worth cost & hassle?

Knut Erik Hovda-2013 Libya methanol outbreak, largest ever >1000 patients.MSF team with formate assay & fomepizole responded to save lives

Knut Erik Hovda- methanol outbreak management? POC testing, sodium bicarb, fomepizole/ethanol, dialysis needed. Antidote/dialysis main limit

Simon Thomas,UK- OD causing long QT common but Torsades rare. Give MgSO4 for long QT even without dysrhythmia. Isoproterenol if MgSO4 fails.

AACT Symposium-great! COI not always obvious but can be managed Making practice guidelines?Don't waste time without an implemention plan

@apamt2013 done-4 days of tox in Dubai>200 delegates,40 countries,100 abstracts,symposia by ACMT,AACT,MENATOX,ESEM. CU @APAMT_2014 in China

Congratulations DUBAI - Hosts of DubaiExpo2020 2020

Despite U.S. pressure, Follow us @GovCanHealth approves crushable, injectable, snortable generic Oxy. fw.to/EALbNoP Lee-Anne Goodman The Globe and Mail

#Quote of the week! "#Twitter is an essential tool for staying up-to-date in #medical #toxicology." Leon Gussow - goo.gl/2PxtDC

Bizarre- 42 deaths from Asian hornet stings in China> hemolytic+neurotoxic treated by dialysis? Dialyzed 13x edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/wor…

APAMT2015 Day1 recap:Nick Buckley>translating research to practice;Man-li Tse>using charcoal;Bob Hoffman>prepping poison center for disaster

@ESEM Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine 2014 Scientific Conference December 5-9, Dubai > Gulf Toxicology will attend, great EM & fox meeting

Hydrofluoric acid put in shoe, results in loss of toes. Scorned Japanese man poisons women who turned him down. straitstimes.com/breaking-news/…

Sad case great pics- 5year-old in China poisoned by malicious elemental mercury injections. Tough case anywhere. chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-09/…

esem2014.com Advanced HAZMAT Life Support (AHLS) Course (Day 1) Workshop Directors: M. Yousif Baniyas (UAE) & Sara Kazim (UAE)

2015 MENATOX toxicology meeting announced. January 23-25, 2015 Doha, Qatar. Great topics, great speakers TBA,,,,,, menatox.org

Know the toxin? 6 Chinese workers die in succession trying to rescue collapsed co-workers. shanghaiist.com/2014/10/04/ser…