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Medical Cases and Topics for Health Care Providers

What are medical cases and topics for health care providers?

Medical Cases and Topics for Health Care Providers are based upon inquiries received by NPIC, as well as relevant publications in the scientific literature. They are intended to educate health care providers about pesticide toxicology. Common as well as uncommon scenarios involving pesticide exposures are used as examples of challenges that a clinician might encounter in their daily practice.

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Medical Cases and Topics:

• Changing Trends in the Epidemiology of Insecticide Exposures
• Pesticides: Testing for Exposure Using the Clinical Laboratory
• Using DEET Safely
• Pesticide Incident Reporting
• Inhalation Risks from Phosphide Fumigants
• Synthetic Pyrethroids and Paresthesias
• Biomarkers of Exposure: Organophosphates

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What are pests?

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NPIC provides objective, science-based information about pesticides and pesticide-related topics to enable people to make informed decisions. NPIC is a cooperative agreement between Oregon State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (cooperative agreement #X8-83947901). The information in this publication does not in any way replace or supersede the restrictions, precautions, directions, or other information on the pesticide label or any other regulatory requirements, nor does it necessarily reflect the position of the U.S. EPA.