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Common Household Toxins

This session provides a clinical background regarding common household toxins and patient presentations, management, treatment, and prevention of toxicity. At the end of this session, participants will be able to identify common household items that may cause clinical toxicity and will be able to manage or direct patients on where to seek further medical care.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify common household items that may unknowingly cause harm to inhabitants.
  • Describe the potential toxicity of common household items.
  • Determine what types of exposures may require a patient to seek immediate medical attention.
  • Provide strategies to prevent exposure and possible poisoning by common household products.
This program is provided by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Participants engaging in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 0.5 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report continuing medical education (CME) credits commensurate with the physician’s participation in this program.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this enduring activity for 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.