Understanding Xylazine
This session focuses on the insights and perspectives of Poison Control Center clinicians in addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) care issues in our local region,…
Course Category: Poison Control
Introduction to the Induction: A Primer to Starting Your Patient on Buprenorphine
This session focuses on the insights and perspectives of Poison Control Center clinicians in addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) care issues in our local region,…
Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Dickensian Story
Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMT, is an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine and the medical director of the Poison Control Center at…
Fatal Poisonings
It’s hard to call an opioid overdose an accident when it happens to a young child — at home and under supervision. Some fatal poisonings…
A Resources Roadmap to Recovery in the Greater Philadelphia Area: Session 4
This session will review trends in substance use and overdose in Philadelphia, PA, and the United States. Treatment recommendations including harm reduction resources and benefits…
Buprenorphine Induction Beyond the Basics: Session 3
Buprenorphine is one of the gold standard medications utilized for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). One of the major barriers to buprenorphine maintenance is…
Adolescent Opioid Use Disorder: Session 2
This session will explore evidence demonstrating how addiction can be considered a pediatric disease as well as treatment currently provided to adolescent patients with Opioid…
The Pediatric Impact of the Opioid Crisis: Session 1
This session will explore the many ways in which opioid epidemic affects pediatric medicine, from toddler exploratory poisonings, to young patients’ parental loss, neonatal abstinence…
Preventing Poisoning
Poisoning is the number one cause of death due to injury in the U.S. In this episode, Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, Medical Director of CHOP’s Poison…