Search query:

Filter by date

Results 1 - 5 of 5 Search Tips

Pesticide poisoning: rodenticides

01 November 2000

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Rodenticides are used for the control of rats and mice. There are hundreds of rodenticide products available. As with other pesticides, there are preparations...

Pesticide poisoning: insecticides

01 June 1999

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Insecticides are used in a variety of settings: on farms, in the workplace, in the home and garden and medicinally. In agriculture they are used to control insects...

Lead Poisoning

01 July 2001

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Although the general population may be exposed to lead from numerous environmental or occupational sources, acute lead poisoning, especially seen in the A&E setting,...

Pesticide poisoning: herbicides

01 May 1999

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Apesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest (insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed)...

Practical advice on managing poisoning from the NPIS (London)

01 December 1997

Emergency Nurse

Clinical acute poisoning

1 Is it necessary to have a policy to call a poisons centre for all cases or should we rely more on our own cardfile systems and books? The NPIS (London) considers...