Professor, Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Toby Litovitz works in the field of Emergency Medicine. She attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Toby L. Litovitz, MD is also published. She has 98 publications published. The lastest publication: "1997 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.'

Publications

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• Effect of cough and cold medication restriction and label changes on pediatric ingestions reported to United States poison centers.
• Severe ocular injury after button battery exposure.
• Inhalant abuse: monitoring trends by using poison control data, 1993-2008.
• The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS): risk assessment and real-time toxicovigilance across United States poison centers.
• 2004 Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• 2003 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• 2002 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• Do poison center guidelines adversely affect patient outcomes as triage referral values increase?
• Electrocardiographic changes associated with beta-blocker toxicity.
• 2001 Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• The "sniffing bar".
• The alcohols: ethanol, methanol, isopropanol, ethylene glycol.
• Epidemiology of nonfatal deliberate self-harm in the United States as described in three medical databases.
• Accidental ingestions of oral prescription drugs: a multicenter survey.
• Hemorrhagic complications following esophageal button battery ingestion.
• Miniature battery foreign bodies in auditory and nasal cavities.
• Cimetidine toxicity: an assessment of 881 cases.
• The pharmacist's role in toxicology.
• Management of button battery-induced hemorrhage in children.
• Role of modulation on the effect of microwaves on ornithine decarboxylase activity in L929 cells.
• Progress in the prevention of childhood iron poisoning.
• Health implications of petroleum distillate ingestion.
• Public health investigation after the discovery of ricin in a South Carolina postal facility.
• Button battery ingestion: assessment of therapeutic modalities and battery discharge state.
• Listen, ye legislators, our children need you!
• Technology in poison centers: cutting edge or cutting services?
• In defense of retaining ipecac syrup as an over-the-counter drug.
• The potential impact of poison control centers on rural hospitalization rates for poisoning.
• The role of hemoperfusion and hemodialysis in toxicology.
• The impact of poison control centers on poisoning-related visits to EDs--United States, 2003.
• Self-poisoning among adults using multiple transdermal nicotine patches.
• Reporting of adverse events.
• Azalea toxicity: an overrated problem?
• Implication of dispensing cups in dosing errors and pediatric poisonings: a report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• Early detection of illness associated with poisonings of public health significance.
• ELF in vitro exposure systems for inducing uniform electric and magnetic fields in cell culture media.
• The impact of bittering agents on pediatric ingestions of antifreeze.
• The TESS database. Use in product safety assessment.
• Diphenhydramine dose-response: a novel approach to determine triage thresholds.
• The effect of milk on ipecac-induced emesis.
• 1984 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• Suicidal antidepressant overdoses: a comparative analysis by antidepressant type.
• The severity of toxic reactions to ephedra: comparisons to other botanical products and national trends from 1993-2002.
• Poison information providers: an assessment of proficiency.
• Initial symptoms as predictors of esophageal injury in alkaline corrosive ingestions.
• Prescription drug ingestions in children: whose drug?
• The impact of bittering agents on suicidal ingestions of antifreeze.
• Childhood poisoning involving transdermal nicotine patches.
• Occupational and environmental exposures reported to poison centers.
• Comparison of pediatric poisoning hazards: an analysis of 3.8 million exposure incidents. A report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• Determinants of U.S. poison center utilization.
• Emerging battery-ingestion hazard: clinical implications.
• Preventing battery ingestions: an analysis of 8648 cases.
• Ingestion of cylindrical and button batteries: an analysis of 2382 cases.
• Poison Control Centers: is there an antidote for budget cuts?
• Surveillance of loperamide ingestions: an analysis of 216 poison center reports.
• Characterization of US poison centers: a 1998 survey conducted by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• 2000 Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• Do poison center triage guidelines affect healthcare facility referrals?
• 1999 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• Acute beta blocker overdose: factors associated with the development of cardiovascular morbidity.
• 1998 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• 1997 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• State of the national's poison centers: 1995 American Association of Poison Control Centers Survey of US Poison Centers.
• 1996 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• The effect of pulsed and sinusoidal magnetic fields on the morphology of developing chick embryos.
• Characterization of fatal beta blocker ingestion: a review of the American Association of Poison Control Centers data from 1985 to 1995.
• Fatal accidental dibucaine poisoning in children.
• 1995 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• State of the nation's poison centers: 1994 American Association of Poison Control Centers survey of US poison centers.
• 1992 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• 1993 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• 1994 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.
• Poison center operations: the necessity of follow-up.
• Please don't eat the daffodils.
• Amoxapine overdose. Seizures and fatalities.
• Toxathon: a new and effective method of toxicologic education.
• Cyanide poisoning treated with hyperbaric oxygen.
• 1983 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• Toxicology: an annotated bibliography of the recent literature.
• Pediatric cyanide intoxication and death from an acetonitrile-containing cosmetic.
• Button battery ingestions. A review of 56 cases.
• The anecdotal antidotes.
• An experimental and theoretical study of the pneumatic tonometer.
• Pneumatic applanation tonometer studies. II. Rabbit cornea data.
• Quantitative measurements of blood lymphocytes from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and the Sézary syndrome.
• Levothyroxine poisoning.
• Emesis versus lavage for poisoning victims.
• Battery ingestions: product accessibility and clinical course.
• 1985 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• 1986 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• 1987 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• Clinical manifestations of toxicity in a series of 784 boric acid ingestions.
• 1991 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Data Collection System.
• Ipecac administration in children younger than 1 year of age.
• Levothyroxine ingestions in children: an analysis of 78 cases.
• Recurrent poisonings among paediatric poisoning victims.

Schools

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• Washington Center School of Medicine

• Beth Israel Hospital

• Georgetown University

Doctors Specialties

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• Emergency Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

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