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  • Toxicology and Toxinology
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    • Button battery ingestion
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    • Caustic ingestions
      • Management overview for caustic ingestions
      • Risk assessment for caustic ingestions
        • Chemical properties of caustic substances
        • Clinical presentation
        • Key investigations
      • Treatment for caustic ingestions
      • Observation and patient disposition after caustic ingestions
      • References
    • Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and quinine poisonings
    • Clonidine and guanfacine poisonings
    • Cocaine poisoning
    • Colchicine poisoning
    • Cyanide poisoning
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    • Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) poisoning
    • Herbicide poisoning
    • Hydrocarbon poisoning
    • Hydrofluoric acid poisoning
    • Insecticide poisoning
    • Iron poisoning
    • Isoniazid poisoning
    • Lead poisoning
    • Lithium poisoning
    • Local anaesthetic poisoning
    • Marine envenoming and penetrating marine injuries
    • Marine poisoning
    • Methotrexate poisoning
    • Nicotine poisoning
    • Nitrous oxide poisoning
    • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) poisoning
    • Novel psychoactive substance poisoning
    • Opioid poisoning
    • Paracetamol poisoning
    • Poisoning from plants
    • Potassium poisoning (oral)
    • Snake bite
    • Spider bite
    • Stimulant drug poisoning
    • Superwarfarin poisoning
    • Theophylline and caffeine poisonings
    • Intravenous inotrope infusions (Appendix 11.1)

Risk assessment for caustic ingestions

Specific risk assessment advice is given for the following caustic agents:

  • button batteries
  • herbicides, including chlorophenoxy herbicides, glyphosate, and paraquat
  • hydrofluoric acid.
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Created: 2020. Modified: 2020. (HW Diagnostics)