Synopsis of Important Principles

1. Specific antidotal therapy is available for very few poisons. The mainstay of treatment of severe poisoning is intensive supportive therapy and good nursing care.

2. The great majority of poisoned patients recover with intensive supportive therapy alone, and enthusiastic claims for the success of other treatment often cannot be justified.

3. With some important exceptions, the management of poisoning is not altered by knowledge of plasma drug concentrations. There are many pitfalls in the interpretation of drug concen­trations in poisoned patients, especially when nonspecific analytical methods are used.

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