Zhanna Livshits, MD

A Toxic Fish Dinner

Publish date: October 1, 2011

A woman and her daughter present to the ED with gastrointestinal symptoms, hypotension, and bradycardia. Both have eaten the same fish dinner. The...

Publish date: July 1, 2011

A man injects his girlfriend with a liquid and swallows the same substance himself. Both die soon after. What is the toxin, and what measures migh...

Publish date: August 1, 2010

A young woman is convulsing, unconscious, and unresponsive, and her ECG shows cardiotoxicity. What agent did she ingest, and how should her case b...

Publish date: May 1, 2010

Several days after receiving a vitamin infusion from his physician, an African American man presents to the ED with fever, dyspnea, vomiting, and ...

Publish date: February 1, 2010

Patients who have ingested toxic agents are commonly encountered in the ED. This new feature presents case scenarios and analyses.