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Supportive treatment is an essential component of the management of the intoxicated patient. Monitoring and assessment of all organ systems in conjunction with the use of appropriate pharmaceutical agents/antidotes increases therapeutic success. The nature of this care will depend on the toxicant in question and the patient’s condition upon presentation.

SUGGESTED READING

Ballantyne, B., T. Marrs, and P. Turner, eds. General and Applied Toxicology, college ed., New York: Macmillan, 1995.

R. E. Ferner, ed. Forensic Pharmacology: Medicines, Mayhem, and Malpractice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

A. Furst, ed. The Toxicologist as Expert Witness. Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis, 1997.

Hardman, J. G., L. E. Limbird, P. B. Molinoff, R. W. Ruddon, and A. Goodman Gilman, eds.

Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 10th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Klaassen, C. D., Cassarett and Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Trestrail, III, J. H. ed. Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide For Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2000.