{
  "abstract": "The management of patients suspected, but not confirmed, as being poisoned is challenging. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine and National Poisons Information Service have produced this guidance to provide a generalised clinical approach to any poisoned patient in the emergency department. This guideline provides a clinical approach to support the initial assessment of a patient, identification of potential toxic agents and emergency management. A toxidromic approach is used, with emphasis on consideration of the toxicokinetics of potential poisons and how the patient’s clinical condition may change. It does not replace poison-specific guidance available from TOXBASE and the NPIS or a locally appropriate poisons centre.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Birmingham, UK",
        "Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (Research & Clinical Innovation), Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Birmingham, UK, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Peter Welby-Everard"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Mark Pucci"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Sally Bradberry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Paul Dargan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Edinburgh, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Aravindan Veiraiah"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Newcastle, UK",
        "Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Ruben Thanacoody"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Poisons Information Service, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Muhammad E M O Elamin"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Management of patients with suspected but unidentified poisoning in the emergency department: a joint Royal College of Emergency Medicine and National Poisons Information Service best practice guideline",
  "uid": "7b5e01b3-90a3-5ff7-83c7-733b0ce5eec6"
}