Staff Articles

IPC staff are leaders in the field of preventing poisoning harm. Learn more from our staff experts in the peer-reviewed journal articles below. Along with IPC experts, articles are also written by members of the Toxikon Consortium, a clinical educational partnership between IPC, Cook County Health and Hospital System, and University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.

2020 

• Public Health Surveillance for the Prevention of Pesticide-Related Illness in Illinois 
• The Public Health Response to a Large Poisoning Outbreak Involving an Illicit Substance: Synthetic Cannabinoids Contaminated With a Long-Acting Anticoagulant Rodenticide, Illinois, March-July, 2018 
• Pediatric poison center exposures and outcomes in the context of grandparent supervision 
• Salicylate toxicity following undetectable concentrations 

2019 

• An outbreak of severe coagulopathy from synthetic cannabinoids tainted with Long-Acting anticoagulant rodenticides 
• Tramadol, naloxone, and seizures 
• ADB-FUBINACA Body Packer 

2018 

• Management of severe bupropion poisoning with intravenous lipid emulsion 
• The Beef Jerky Blues: Methemoglobinemia From Home Cured Meat 

2017 

• Treatment of Benzodiazepine Dependence 
• The POPOP (puffing on pulse oximeter probe) sign of ethanol withdrawal 

2016 

• Snapchat Toxicology: Social Media and Suicide 
• Digoxin-Specific Antibody Fragment Dosing: A Case Series 
• Those Salicylate Cases-How Sweet Are They? a
• Forgoing the Folate?-Contemporary Recommendations for Methanol Poisoning and Evidence Review 

2015 

• Wartime toxicology: perspectives from a downrange medical toxicologist 

2014 

• The association between U.S. Poison Center assistance and length of stay and hospital charges 
• Nutmeg poisonings: a retrospective review of 10 years experience from the Illinois Poison Center, 2001-2011 
• Emerging drugs of abuse 
• The toxic trio: valproic acid, lithium, and carbamazepine  

2013

• Management of Unintentional Methanol Ingestions – Kids Aren’t Little Adults?
• Lipid rescue 911: Are poison centers recommending intravenous fat emulsion therapy for severe poisoning? 
• A 9-state analysis of designer stimulant, "bath salt," hospital visits reported to poison control centers 
• Direct comparison of 20-hour IV, 36-hour oral, and 72-hour oral acetylcysteine for treatment of acute acetaminophen poisoning 
• Hyperinsulin therapy for calcium channel antagonist poisoning: a seven-year retrospective study

2012

• Hazardous material events in schools and how the regional poison control center can help 
• Can a poison center overdose guideline safely reduce pediatric emergency department visits for unintentional β-blocker ingestions? 
• Melanotan II injection resulting in systemic toxicity and rhabdomyolysis 
• Variability in hyperbaric oxygen treatment for acute carbon monoxide poisoning 
• Dropping acid at school: hydrochloric acid exposures in chemistry class

2011

• Dose Dependent Response to Cyclodextrin Infusion in a Rat Model of Verapamil Toxicity
• Hyperinsulinemia Euglycemia for Management of Severe Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose
• Self-treatment of acetaminophen overdose with dietary-supplement acetylcysteine

 2010

• Tetrahydrozoline Toxicity: Truths and Tales
• Double Peak and Prolonged Absorption After Large Acetaminophen Extended Release and Diphenhydramine Ingestion
• Whole bowel irrigation and the hemodynamically unstable calcium channel blocker overdose: primum non nocere.
• Third-degree AV block from extended-release diltiazem ingestion in a nine-month-old.
• Lepiota subincarnata J.E. Lange induced fulminant hepatic failure presenting with pancreatitis.
• Legal liability as poison center consultant.
• Adenosine and caffeine-induced paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
• Unilateral Blindness Following Acute Methanol Poisoning.
• Effect of Cyclodextrin Infusion in a Rat Model of Verapamil Toxicity.
• Can acute overdose of metformin lead to lactic acidosis?
• Drugs of abuse: the highs and lows of altered mental states in the emergency department.
• Computerized N-Acetylcysteine Physician Order Entry by Template Protocol for Acetaminophen Toxicity.
• Pseudorenal Insufficiency With Isopropyl Alcohol Ingestion.

2009

• Cocaine: history, social implications, and toxicity--a review.
• Hepatotoxicity in an infant following supratherapeutic dosing of acetaminophen for twenty-four hours
• Levosimendan for calcium channel blocker poisoning in humans.
• Parenteral ophthalmic tropicamide or cyclopentolate protects rats from lethal organophosphate poisoning.
• Hazardous brick cleaning.
• Public health response to puffer fish (Tetrodotoxin) poisoning from mislabeled product.
• Use of clonidine in the prevention and management of neonatal abstinence syndrome. 
• Zolpidem Misuse With Other Medications or Alcohol Frequently Results in Intensive Care Unit Admission.
• Physical and chemical restraints.
• A complicated hospitalization following dilute ammonium chloride ingestion.
• Long-term psychiatric consequences from carbon monoxide exposure: progression of endogenous cause or toxicant effect?
• Death by polonium-210: lessons learned from the murder of former Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko.

2008

• Hospitalization for caffeine abuse is associated with abuse of other pharmaceutical products. 
• Case files of the medical toxicology fellowship at the toxikon consortium in Chicago: cocaine-associated wide-complex dysrhythmias and cardiac arrest - treatment nuances and controversies.
• Fentanyl epidemic in Chicago, Illinois and surrounding Cook County.
• Hospitalization for caffeine abuse is associated with abuse of other pharmaceutical products.
• Metoclopramide versus hydromorphone for the emergency department treatment of migraine headache.
• Response to self-poisoning with pet medications.
• Carbon dioxide-induced narcosis due to dry ice exposure in a patient with sleep apnea.
• The disease of addiction: origins, treatment, and recovery. Foreword.
• Topical pyrethrin toxicity leading to acute-onset stuttering in a toddler.
• Status epilepticus due to tiagabine ingestion.

2007

• A five-year review of the medical outcome of heroin body stuffers.
• Octreotide therapy for nateglinide-induced hypoglycemia.