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Efficacy of North American crotalid antivenom against the African viper Bitis gabonica (Gaboon viper)William J Meggs
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, 600 Moye Boulevard, Room 3ED311, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Med Toxicol 6:12-4. 2010..gabonica (Gaboon viper) venom. Based on this result, treatment of humans envenomated with B. gabonica with North American Croatlid antivenin could be considered for severe envenomations if specific B. gabonica antivenin is unavailable...- Pilot studies of pressure-immobilization bandages for rattlesnake envenomationsWilliam Joel Meggs
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Clin Toxicol (Phila) 48:61-3. 2010..Pilot studies were performed to determine the time of onset of toxicity and efficacy of pressure-immobilizations bandages in a porcine model of rattlesnake envenomation... - Epidemics of mold poisoning past and presentWilliam J Meggs
Division of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Toxicol Ind Health 25:571-6. 2009..Two diseases that were leading causes of childhood mortality in England in the 1970s and vanished with changing dietary habits, putrid malignant fever, and slow nervous fever were most likely toxic mold epidemics... - Weight gain associated with chronic exposure to chlorpyrifos in ratsWilliam J Meggs
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Med Toxicol 3:89-93. 2007..This work exposed rats to low levels of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos and monitored for toxic effects, including weight gain... - A localizing circumferential compression device delayed death after artificial eastern diamondback rattlesnake envenomation to the torso of an animal model in a pilot studyJason B Hack
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
J Med Toxicol 6:207-11. 2010..5) min (p < 0.04). In this pilot study, the LoCC device significantly delayed onset of systemic symptoms and death after torso envenomation with Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake venom in this model... - Limited efficacy of calcium and magnesium in a porcine model of hydrofluoric acid ingestionJason A Coffey
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Med Toxicol 3:45-51. 2007..This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of calcium and magnesium in treating oral hydrofluoric acid (HF) poisoning... - Oral treatment of organophosphate poisoning in miceBradford J Bowls
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody Medical School at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:286-8. 2003..Generalization of this result to other organophosphate pesticides, other doses of paraoxon, and other species cannot be made without further investigations... - Sustained oxygenation without ventilation in paralyzed pigs with high-flow tracheal oxygenWilliam J Meggs
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Am J Emerg Med 23:864-7. 2005..It is generally assumed that ventilation is necessary for oxygenation. This study tested if paralyzed animals without respirations can maintain arterial oxygenation when administered high-flow oxygen delivered by a catheter in the trachea... - The effect of calcium chloride in treating hyperkalemia due to acute digoxin toxicity in a porcine modelJason B Hack
Division of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 42:337-42. 2004.... - Permanent paralysis at sites of dermal exposure to chlorpyrifosWilliam J Meggs
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Toxicology, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 41:883-6. 2003..Poisoning with organophosphate pesticides can cause sensory and motor neuropathy with permanent paralysis. Paralysis at the site of dermal exposure has not been reported... - Pressure-immobilization bandages delay toxicity in a porcine model of eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius fulvius) envenomationBenjamin T German
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Ann Emerg Med 45:603-8. 2005..CONCLUSION: Pressure-immobilization bandages delayed the onset of systemic toxicity in our porcine model of M fulvius envenomation... - Heparin reverses anaphylactoid shock in a porcine modelCharles R Heflin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:190-3. 2006..CONCLUSION: A23187 induced anaphylactoid shock in all subjects. Therapy with intravenous epinephrine combined with diphenhydramine reversed shock. Heparin also rapidly reversed shock... - Images in emergency medicine. Activated charcoal aspirationJason B Hack
Brody School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:522, 531. 2006 - Fallacies in the refutation of causalityWilliam J Meggs
Clin Toxicol (Phila) 43:383-4. 2005