Selected Publications

Kim T, Chhabra N, Weech DM, Leikin JB. Short-Term Graft Failure of Organs Procured from Drug-Related Deaths Compared with Other Causes of Death. J Med Toxicol 2020 [in press].

Eswaran V, Allen KC, Bottari DC, Splawski JA, Bains S, Aks SE, Swoboda HD, Moore PQ, Tran TH, Salisbury-Afshar E, Lank PM, McCarthy DM, Kim HS. Take-Home Naloxone Program Implementation: Lessons Learned From Seven Chicago-Area Hospitals. Ann Emerg Med 2020;76(3):318-327.

Routsolias JC, Gimbar RP, Zell-Kanter M. Clinical Pharmacists: Essential During a Poison Outbreak. J Med Toxicol 2020 [in press].

Mycyk MB. ECMO shows promise for treatment of poisoning some of the time: the challenge to do better by aiming higher. Crit Care Med 2020; 48(8):1235-1237.

Bryant SM, Kim T, Colibao L, DesLauriers C. Pediatric poison center exposures and outcomes in the context of grandparent supervision. J Pediatr. 2020;222:263.

Agunbiade A, Routsolias JC, Rizvanolli L, Bleifuss W, Sundaresan S, Moskoff J. The effects of ceftriaxone by intravenous push on adverse drug reactions in the emergency department. Am J Emerg Med. 2020; S0735-6757(20)30164-9

Rushovich T, Arwady MA, Salisbury-Afshar E, Arunkumar P, Aks S, Prachand N.J  Opioid-related overdose deaths by race and neighborhood economic hardship in Chicago. Ethn Subst Abuse. 2020:1-14.

Bryant SM, Lu JJ. Salicylate toxicity following undetectable concentrations. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2020 Mar;58(3):212.

Mycyk MB. Addressing the vexing challenge of bleeding from oral anticoagulants in the ED. Amer J Emerg Med 2020; 38:1209-1210.

Chhabra N, Aks SE.Treatment of acute naloxone-precipitated opioid withdrawal with buprenorphine. Am J Emerg Med. 2020;38(3):691.e3-691.

Devgun JM, Rasin A, Kim T, Mycyk MB, Bryant SM, Wahl MS, DesLauriers C, Navon L, Moritz ED, Thompson TM, Swoboda HD, Lu J, Aks SE.An outbreak of severe coagulopathy from synthetic cannabinoids tainted with Long-Acting anticoagulant rodenticides. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2019 [in press]

Neumann N, Chai PR, Wood DM, Greller HA, Mycyk MB. Medical Toxicology and COVID-19: Our role in a pandemic. J Med Toxicol 2020; 16(3):245-247.

Kopec KT, Kim T, Mowry J, Aks S, Kao L. Role of dantrolene in dinitrophenol (DNP) overdose: a continuing question? Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Jun;37(6):1216

Myers K, Giblin E, Zell-Kanter M. It’s Just Math-Unless It’s Toxic! AEM Educ Train 2019;4(1):64-67.

Black E, McCann S, Rasin A, Aks S. Articles you might have missed. J Med Toxicol 2019;15(2): 136-8.

Bryant SM, Lu JJ. Salicylate toxicity following undetectable concentrations. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2019 May 22:1. [in press]

Jang DH, Love JS, Mycyk MB. JMT’s research concepts section: a 5-year evaluation. J Med Toxicol. 2019 [in press]

Navon L, Moritz E, Austin C, Wahl M, Aks S, Layden J. The Public Health Response to a Large Poisoning Outbreak Involving an Illicit Substance: Synthetic Cannabinoids Contaminated With a Long-Acting Anticoagulant Rodenticide, Illinois, March-July, 2018. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2019 Apr 5 [in press]

Chhabra N, Pallasch EM, Wahl M, Bryant SM. Tramadol, naloxone, and seizures. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2019;57(12):1160.

Maloney LM, Mycyk MB. Honest Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Advances Emergency Medicine Scholarship. Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(6):698-700.

Abbasi AB, Salisbury-Afshar E, Jovanov D, Berberet C, Arunkumar P, Aks SE, Layden JE, Pho MT. Health Care Utilization of Opioid Overdose Decedents with No Opioid Analgesic Prescription History. J Urban Health. 2019 Feb;96(1):38-48.

Mycyk MB. Synthetic Cannabinoid-Associated Coagulopathy. N Engl J Med. 2019;380(1):100-101.

Naloxone prescriptions from the emergency department: an initiative in evolution. Verdier M, Routsolias JC, Aks SE. Amer J Emerg Med 2019;37(1):164-165.

Mycyk MB. Responsible Attention to Conflicts of Interest Enhances the Credibility of Published Scholarship.J Med Toxicol. 2019;15(1):1-3.

Stolbach A, Bebarta V, Beuhler M, Carstairs S, Nelson L, Wahl M, Wax PM, McKay C. ACMT Position Statement: Alternative or Contingency Countermeasures for Acetylcholinesterase Inhibiting Agents. J Med Toxicol. 2018;14(3):261-263.

Larsen J, Thompson T, Mycyk MB. Reviewing the record: medical record reviews for medical toxicology research. J Med Toxicol 2018;14(3):179-181.

Naloxone access among an urban population of opioid users. Nikolaides JK, Rizvanolli L, Rozum M, Aks SE. Am J Emerg Med. 2018;36(11):2126-2127.

The virtual toxicology journal club: the dissemination and discussion of noteworthy manuscript using twitter. Chai PR, Ruha AM, Wong KE, Monette DL, Spyres MB, Lapoint J, Greller H, Mycyk MB. J Med Toxicol 2018; 14(3):212-17.

Emergency department patient burden from an electronic dance music festival. Chhabra N, Gimbar RP, Walla LM, Thompson TM. J Emerg Med 2018 Apr;54(4):435-439.

Hays GP, Mycyk MB. Confronting the opioid crisis by taking a long look in the mirror…and at our peers. Acad Emerg Med 2018; 25(5):594-6.

Khattar N, Routsolias JC. Emergency Department Treatment of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome: A Review. Am J Ther 2018;25(3):e357-e361.

Chhabra N, DesLauriers C, Wahl M, Bryant SM. Management of severe bupropion poisoning with intravenous lipid emulsion. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2018;56(1):51-54.

Kanter JA, Chhabra N, Zell-Kanter M. Mailbox Tox: Ingestion of a Pharmaceutical Product Stolen From a Mailbox. Ann Pharmacother 2018;52(3):299.

Theobald JL, Spoelhof R, Pallasch EM, Mycyk MB. The beef jerky blues: methemoglobinemia from home cured meat. Pediatr Emerg Care 2018;34(7):e122-e123.

Christian MR, Sergel MJ, Mycyk MB, Aks SE. Comparison of high-fidelity medical simulation to short-answer written examination in the assessment of emergency medicine residents in medical toxicology. Mo Med 2017;114(5):396-399.

McCabe DJ, Lu JJ. The association of hemodialysis and survival in intubated salicylate-poisoned patients. Am J Emerg Med 2017;35(6):899-903

Mycyk MB. Maintaining the Public Trust in Journals with Ethical Publishing. J Med Toxicol 2017;13(4):275-77.

Bryant SM, Welker KL, Khattar N.  Treatment of Benzodiazpine Dependence.  N Engl J Med 2017;376:2397-8.

Ho JH, Leikin JB, Dargan PI, Archer JRH, Wood DM, Brent J. Metal-on-Metal Hip Joint Prostheses: a Retrospective Case Series Investigating the Association of Systemic Toxicity with Serum Cobalt and Chromium Concentrations. J Med Toxicol 2017;13(4):321-328.

Witsil JC, Mycyk MB. Haloperidol, a Novel Treatment for Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. Am J Ther 2017;24(1):e64-e67

Middelberg LK, Chhabra N, Mycyk MB. Carbon Monoxide Intoxication of Childhood. Pediatr Emerg Care 2017;33(3):e5.

Bryant SM. The POPOP (puffing on pulse oximeter probe) sign of ethanol withdrawal. Am J Emerg Med 2016; 34(5):895-8.

Thompson TM, Toerne T, Erickson TB. Salicylate Toxicity from Genital Exposure to a Methylsalicylate-Containing Rubefacient.  West J Emerg Med 2016;17(2):181-3.

Theobald JL,  Spoelhof R, Pallasch EM, Mycyk MB. The Beef Jerky Blues: Methemoglobinemia From Home Cured Meat. Pediatr Emerg Care 2016.

Chhabra N, Bryant SM. Snapchat Toxicology: Social Media and Suicide. Ann Emerg Med 2016; 68(4):527.

Weeks MA, Clark E, Mycyk MB. Characteristics of heroin-dependent patients seeking asthma care in the ED. Am J Emerg Med 2016. 34(5): 895-8.

Lim SM, Marcelo C, Bryant SM. Those Salicylate Cases-How Sweet Are They? Am J Ther 2016;23(5):e1155-6.

Chhabra N, Valento M, Bryant SM, Aks SE. Digoxin-Specific Antibody Fragment Dosing: A Case Series. Am J Ther 2016;23(6):e1597-e1601.

Welker KL, Mycyk MB. Pharmacology in the Geriatric Patient. Emerg Med Clin North Am 2016;34(3):469-81.

Mycyk MB. When Your N >1: Drawing Meaningful Conclusions from Registry Studies. J Med Toxicol 2016;12(3):219-20.

Thompson TM. Medical Toxicology Education in a World of Limited Resources. J Med Toxicol 2015;11(3):281-2.

Palmer RB, Aks SE. Retained pill fragments at autopsy: time to rethink gastric decontamination? Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2015;53(2):82-4.

Bryant SM. Wartime toxicology: perspectives from a downrange medical toxicologist. J Med Toxicol 2015;11(1):157.

Zell-Kanter M, Quigley MA, Leikin JB. Reduction in ephedra poisonings after FDA ban. N Engl J Med 2015;372(22):2172-4.

Doyon S, Aks SE, Schaeffer S. Expanding access to naloxone in the United States. J Med Toxicol 2014;10(4):431-4.

Friedman LS, Krajewski A, Vannoy E, Allegretti A, Wahl M. The association between U.S. Poison Center assistance and length of stay and hospital charges. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2014;52(3):198-206.