Affiliation:
1. Florida Poison Information Center, Jacksonville, and the University Medical Center, University of Florida Health Science Center-Jacksonville, FL
Abstract
Antidotal therapy is useful for only a meager number of poisonous agents in which reversal of the effects of the toxin, or treatment of the toxin-induced pathophysiologic derangements, is possible. This review of selected antidotes is meant to acquaint the reader with some of the new and/or controversial uses for a few of our older agents, to introduce two new agents recently marketed, and to refresh information on antidotes not often used.