Clinical Toxinology Short Course

$500/per user

  • 12 months access
  • 3 attempts at passing
Introduction Course structure Acknowledgements Course Structure

Introduction

The Clinical Toxinology eLearning course has been adapted from the Clinical Toxinology Short Course held in Adelaide, South Australia in 2017.

The course was held over 7 days and features over 60 videos from renowned international experts.

Please note: Fees charged are for the development of course materials and no personal gain has been made from the participants in the course.

Target audience

  • Medical practitioners, including those working in:
    • Emergency medicine.
    • Intensive care.
    • Toxicology/Toxinology.
    • Rural and remote medical practitioners.
    • Tropical medicine.
  • Veterinary surgeons.
  • Nursing professionals involved in emergency medicine.

Assumed basic medical practitioner knowledge.

Course aims

The learner should gain an understanding of:

  • Principles of clinical toxinology.
  • Venoms and venom research.
  • General taxonomy, biology and zoogeography of venomous animals.
  • Epidemiology of envenoming.
  • Poisonous animals, plants and mushrooms.

Topics overview

  • Pharmaco and toxicodynamics of envenoming and poisoning.
  • Clinical manifestations of envenoming and poisoning.
  • First aid for envenoming and poisoning.
  • Diagnosis of envenoming and poisoning.
  • Treatment of envenoming and poisoning.

The course is international in scope but covers topics related to Australia in some detail.

Course structure

Toxins, venoms and antivenoms

World of toxins.
Venom research.
Neurotoxins.
Myotoxins.
Haemotoxins.
Nephrotoxins.
Local toxins.

Treatment

First aid overview.
Clinical signs.
Antivenoms.
General management principles.

Marine

Marine venoms.
Irukandji syndrome.
Box jellyfish.
Other jellyfish.
Stinging fish.
Blue ringed octopus.
Cone snails.
Marine toxinology.

Snakes

Venom and poison.
Australian snakes.
PNG snakes.
Non Front Fanged Colubrids (NFFC) snakes.
Asian snakes.
African snakes.
Sea snakes.
South American snakes.
Central American snakes.
European viper.
North American snakes.
Exotic snakebite.
Safe snake handling.

Arthropods

Arthropods.
Widow spiders.
Funnel webs.
Loxoscelism.
Spiders
Ticks.
Scorpions.
Insects.

Plants and mushrooms

Identifying harmful plants.
Neurotoxic plants.
Cyanotoxic plants.
Hepatotoxicplants.
Cardiotoxic plants.
Dermotoxic plants.
Mushroom poisoning.

Acknowledgements

The course organisers thank all past and present course faculty for their wonderful contributions to the course, over more than 20 years.

The dedication of faculty in providing excellent learning opportunities for attendees at past courses has been instrumental in making these courses, held regularly since 1997, so special and well regarded.

When we held the 20-year anniversary course in 2017, from which the videos of lectures presented in this online version were taken, we had no idea that just 3 years later a global pandemic would make it impossible to run in-person courses again, at least for a while.

Please be aware that in some topics, new knowledge has become available since 2017 that obviously will not be included in these lectures from 2017. This fact does not diminish the value of these lectures, presented by global leaders in their fields within clinical toxinology.

Faculty and speakers

Chair and organiser: Professor Julian White, Australia.

Professor David Warrell, UK.
Professor Dietrich Mebs, Germany.
Professor Rick Dart, USA.
Dr. Jean-Philippe Chippaux, France.
Dr. Vaughan Williams, Australia.
Professor Bart Currie, Australia.
Professor Jamie Seymour, Australia.
Dr. Trevor Christensen, Australia.
Dr. Phil Aplin, Australia.
Geoff Newman-Martin, Australia.
Dr. Mark Little, Australia.
Dr. Mark Hutchinson, Australia.
Geoff Coombe, OAM, Australia.
Professor Joy Ghose, Bangladesh.
Dr. Scott Weinstein, Australia/USA.
Professor Michael Eddleston, UK.
Dr. Sam Alfred, Australia.
Dr. Luc de Haro, France.
Professor Fabio Bucharetchi, Brazil.

Course structure