Enroll in this degree and get up to date on the latest advances in Emergency Toxicology for the management of different conditions such as drug overdose in drug addict patients"

With scientific evolution, medicine has found better therapeutic strategies to deal with poisoning in emergency departments. Proof of this is the emergence of specific diagnostic tools, such as molecular toxicology, or the use of devices such as dialysis machines to remove harmful substances from the body. Although all these advances are of significant importance for the practice of healthcare, many specialists are not up to date on their applications. This is due, to a large extent, to the fact that existing teaching programs place more emphasis on theory than on practice.

TECH has proposed to solve this problem with an innovative qualification. Thus arises this Internship Program in which the doctor will acquire first level skills from a prestigious hospital facility. They will go there for 3 weeks, on 8-hour consecutive days, from Monday to Friday. This will be the appropriate space to come into contact,
in a face-to-face and immersive manner, with state-of-the-art technologies for the care of patients affected by heavy metals, industrial substances, insect bites and poisonous reptiles or the improper inhalation of gases and cleaning products.

These skills will be applied to real patients, under the close supervision of an assistant tutor. This academic figure will supervise the specialist's progress and will include other duties of greater complexity in his or her tasks. Likewise, the graduate will have
the opportunity to work together with great experts and discuss intervention strategies for different cases with specific pathologies. Through them, they will also learn about the most exhaustive tendencies to give an integral follow-up to the evolution of this kind of patients. Upon completion of the entire educational process, the physician will have developed a praxis of excellence that they will take back to the workplace 

Enjoy an intensive 3-week internship in a prestigious center and update yourself in the latest clinical procedures in order to grow professionally"

This syllabus examines the main developments in the field of Emergency Toxicology. Thus, the physician will be brought up to date in an exclusively practical way, in direct dialogue with the best experts in the sector and applying their new competencies in the care of real cases. The aim of the program is to provide graduates with all the resources they need to update their practice with excellence and rigor.

Acquire a thorough mastery of the individualized follow-up protocols that Emergency Toxicology implements for the care of pregnant women, children and the elderly"

General Objectives

• Define the basic and general principles of care for the severely poisoned patient
• Identify the main toxins available in our environment
• Describe the main signs and symptoms related to severe acute poisoning and its organ involvement
• Put in place mechanisms to protect the severely poisoned patient and those around them
• Detect complications related to the related toxicant or to the patient's state of health
• Explain the process of care, diagnosis and treatment of the severely poisoned patient in all its dimensions

Specific Objectives

• Perform assessment of the acutely poisoned patient
• Explain the process of applying life support in the acutely poisoned patient
• Apply preventive techniques for gastrointestinal absorption
• Diagnose the alterations of water and electrolyte balance in the acutely poisoned patient
• Describe toxicokinetics and its implication for emergency treatment
• Implement decontamination procedures in acute dermatological intoxications
• Define the toxicological mechanisms in the male and female genitourinary tract
• Identify the effects of xenobiotics
• Describe the ECG alterations that can be seen in intoxications that produce cardiac involvement
• Recognize the possible arrhythmias to be detected in acute intoxications
• Manage the hematological involvement that occurs in acute poisonings
• Carry out procedures for the examination of the patient poisoned by smoke inhalation
• Determine the therapeutic approach to be carried out in the patient poisoned by smoke inhalation or other respiratory agents
• Establish the differential diagnosis between the different toxic renal syndromes
• Identify the clinical pictures that can occur in posioning with neurological involvement
• Describe the systemic repercussion of eye poisoning
• Know those toxins that cause hepatic affectation and their repercussions at the organic level
• Assess violent and autolytic behaviors in relation to psychiatric toxicology
• Determine the organic repercussion of toxicology in athletes and the different products used
• Evaluate poisoning related to possible pharmacological errors in pediatric patients
• Apply specific protocols to be followed in case of overdose in pregnant women
• Identify the principles of teratogenesis and all those products that can produce it
• Master the products that can pose a risk of intoxication in both the mother and the newborn during lactation
• Examine the epidemiology, etiology and repercussions of acute intoxications in the pediatric and neonatal age
• Diagnose the characteristics of intentional and unintentional poisoning in the elderly
• Evaluate the toxicokinetics of paracetamol, antihistamines and decongestants and protocols for their management
• Recognize the toxicokinetics of antifungal and anti-inflammatory drugs and therapeutic strategies against them
• Examine the toxicokinetics of opiates, bisphosphonates and antineoplastics and their treatment in case of acute intoxication
• Determine the toxicokinetics of antiepileptics, antidiabetics and hypoglycemic agents and their appropriate clinical approach
• Identify the toxicokinetics of selective β2-adrenergic agonists, cardioactive steroids, antiarrhythmics, antithrombotics, anticoagulants, thrombolytics, and antifibrinolytics and their treatment in case of acute intoxication
• Explain the toxicokinetics of antibiotics, antifungals and antivirals, antimalarials, antiparasitics and their correct clinical management
• Manage the toxicokinetics of SSRI and other atypical antidepressants, sedative hypnotics and barbiturates, benzodiazepines and muscle relaxants and therapeutic approach
• Know the toxicokinetics of local and general anesthetics, antipsychotics and lithium
• Master phytotherapeutic and vitamin intoxications
• Evaluate the toxicokinetics of phencyclidine, ketamine, amphetamines and designer drugs, inhalants, ethanol, cannabinoids and marijuana, cocaine, hallucinogens and their treatment in case of acute intoxication
• Differentiate the toxicokinetics of substances for chemical subduction and the most recent protocols for their correct management
• Manage the toxicokinetics of arsenic, lead, iron, taking into account their individualized care
• Recognize the toxicokinetics of mercury and cyanides, as well as the strategies to prevent the death of the patient and an adequate follow-up of their evolution
• Recognize the toxicokinetics of petroleum derivatives, fluorine, hydrofluoric acid, methanol, ethylene glycol and other toxic alcohols and their treatment in case of acute poisoning
• Interpret the toxicokinetics of asphyxiants and pulmonary irritants, antiseptics, disinfectants and sterilants, as well as the most effective protocols of action against them
• Identify the toxicokinetics of herbicides, organochlorines, organophosphates, organophosphates, carbamates, pyrethroids and insect repellents
• Introduce specific treatments against these products in case of acute poisoning
• Evaluate specific poisoning produced by substances such as soaps, shampoos, hair dyes, hairsprays and other hair products
• Manage general therapeutic measures against poisoning caused by household products
• Master the physiopathology of caustic poisoning and the protocols to intervene in patients suffering from them
• Describe the possible serious poisoning produced by marine animals, arthropods, arachnids, tarantulas, scorpions, ants, hymenoptera, butterflies, termites, beetles, reptiles and their clinical approach
• Classify toxic mushrooms and their possible antidotes
• Recognize plants with toxic potential and their possible antidotes

Thanks to this program, you will update your practical skills on how to proceed with clinical data obtained by molecular toxicology diagnostics”