APCC: Don’t Sweat It: An Overview of Common Toxidromes and Their Management
About this Webinar
This course will cover common toxidromes encountered in veterinary medicine, including anticholinergic, cholinergic, sympathomimetic, opioid, and hyperthermic toxidromes.
Dr. Hopkins will provide an overview of mechanisms, clinical presentations, treatment, diagnostic testing, and considerations for approaching decontamination and unknown toxic exposures.
Takeaways
- An understanding of constellations of clinical signs and how they might direct treatment in a poisoning case.
- An understanding of mechanisms of action in groups of similar toxins that can cause significant clinical signs.
- An understanding of appropriate diagnostics to use for various conditions
- How to approach management of an unknown toxin
Suited For
Appropriate for veterinarians and technicians; aimed at emergency management but appropriate for all practitioners
Credits
This webinar is RACE-approved and is eligible for 1 hour of free CE for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
Register now and you’ll be notified when the recording is available.
Jennifer Hopkins
DVM, DABT
Dr. Jennifer Hopkins is a toxicologist and has been a consulting veterinarian at the ASPCA APCC since 2021. Before joining the ASPCA, she worked in food animal welfare and regulation with the State of Iowa Department of Agriculture and was in clinical practice in Chicago, IL. She obtained her veterinary degree from Cornell University. She is passionate about helping poisoned pets and educating her colleagues in up-to-date treatment practices.
