Drug Overdose: Resources

BOOKS

• Clinical Manual of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. Paramus: Appleton-Century-Crofts and Fleschner Publishing Co.,1994.
• Deglin, Judith Hopfer, and April Hazard Vallerand. Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. 5th ed. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Co., 1996.
• Ellerhorn, Matthew J. Ellerhorn's Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1996.
• Haddad, Lester M. Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.,1998.
• "Poisoning." In The Merck Manual. 16th ed. Rahway: Merck, 1992.

PERIODICALS

• "Recognition and Treatment of Serious Antipsychotic Drug Overdose." Drugs & Therapy Perspectives 11 (1998): 13-16.

OTHER

• "Drug Overdose." American Institute of Preventative Medicine. <http://www.healthy.net>.
• Graber, Mark A., and Rhea Allen."Emergency Medicine: Overdose and Toxindromes." University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook. <http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter01/20-1.html>.
• [Article by: Altha Roberts Edgren]



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