Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein

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  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, said sulfur dioxide is a known irritant, a byproduct of combustion, and a component of air pollution."At high concentrations and prolonged exposure, it makes its way into the lower lungs and causes inflammation," he explained.
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  Bernstein said: "It makes rational sense that sulfur dioxide could cause this disease in soldiers who had a pretty large known exposure.
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  SOURCES: Matthew King, M.D., fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Robert Miller, M.D., assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Jeffrey Bernstein, M.D., medical director, Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital; May 21, 2008, presentation, American Thoracic Society's International Conference, Toronto

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  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, said sulfur dioxide is a known irritant, a byproduct of combustion, and a component of air pollution. "At high concentrations and prolonged exposure, it makes its way into the lower lungs and causes inflammation," he explained.
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  Bernstein said: "It makes rational sense that sulfur dioxide could cause this disease in soldiers who had a pretty large known exposure.
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  SOURCES: Matthew King, M.D., fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Robert Miller, M.D., assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Jeffrey Bernstein, M.D., medical director, Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital; May 21, 2008, presentation, American Thoracic Society's International Conference, Toronto

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  The course also has a new section on irritant and poisonous plants and animals taught by Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, Director of the Greater Miami Poison Information Center, headquartered at the University of Miami Medical School. As regional plant identification experts, participants in the Urban Horticulture Program were asked to provide eight emergency identifications through photos or specimens of suspected poisonous plants, through several of Broward hospitals' connections to the Poison Information Center, supervised by Dr. Bernstein.

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  But amid worries about side effects, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amended earlier recommendations and began listing another antibiotic, doxycycline, as an alternative anthrax treatment with fewer complications. ``We also know a lot more about doxycycline because it's been around a lot longer,'' said Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director of the Florida Poison Center in Miami.The spate of concerns about Cipro's side effects has stoked a controversy percolating for years on the Internet.And it has highlighted research by a San Diego physician who had been collecting anecdotal evidence about debilitating consequences of downing Cipro pills.He took those accounts and melded them into the study appearing in the upcoming medical journal.

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  And snake bites tend to be clustered in a certain demographic, namely young men who have been drinking too much, according to Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, said sulfur dioxide is a known irritant, a byproduct of combustion, and a component of air pollution."At high concentrations and prolonged exposure, it makes its way into the lower lungs and causes inflammation," he explained.
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  Bernstein said: "It makes rational sense that sulfur dioxide could cause this disease in soldiers who had a pretty large known exposure.
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  SOURCES: Matthew King, M.D., fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Robert Miller, M.D., assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Jeffrey Bernstein, M.D., medical director, Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital; May 21, 2008, presentation, American Thoracic Society's International Conference, Toronto

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  And snake bites tend to be clustered in a certain demographic, namely young men who have been drinking too much, according to Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director of the Florida Poison Information Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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  "Without the anti-venom, you can get paralysis of certain muscles, and people can end up on a ventilator for six weeks or so," Bernstein said."When the venom wears off, they do just fine."
  
  Pit vipers, on the other hand, strike, let go, then wait for the venom to take effect.Not too many deaths occur from rattlers, but they can cause scarring, massive swelling, limitation of function, days off work, days in rehab, even loss of a limb, Bernstein said.
  
  "The worst-case scenario is you're allergic to the venom and have an anaphylactic reaction or other systemic reaction, or there's intravascular injection of the venom into the vein or artery," he said."I've had patients who didn't make it to the hospital, but that's a minority."
  
  Gore tells of a man who died in his vicinity last year of a copperhead bite."He died within a matter of hours, and we think the venom was injected straight into one of the blood vessels," he said.
  
  There is ample supply of rattlesnake anti-venom, but it's expensive, about $1,200 a vial, Bernstein said.
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  The majority are intoxicated," Bernstein said.

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  Published on: 4/22/2007    Last Visited: 4/23/2007  

  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director for the Florida Poison Information Center in Miami, said ciguatera is so rare in most places that physicians often have never heard of it or know little about it.When the Scofelias visited their doctor on Thursday for the first time since falling ill, he had to look up information about ciguatera on the Internet.
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  Moreover, most laboratories and clinics - including Bernstein's, which treats more ciguatera cases than almost any other in the United States - don't even have the ability to perform expensive tests for ciguatera in their patients.
  
  "It's not like there's millions of dollars out there for this" research, Bernstein said, adding that policymakers probably haven't heard of ciguatera either.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has one of the few laboratories that can test fish samples for ciguatera.It doesn't count a case unless it's confirmed through tests, but Bernstein said the poison center considers a case such as the Scofelias', with classic symptoms, to be ciguatera.
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  Bernstein also said there is no commercially available test.
  
  "It would be nice to be able to test the fish, especially for the restaurant industry," he said.
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  Bernstein said the result is at least 22 kinds of ciguatoxin, each producing a slightly different set of symptoms.
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  "With today's methods of shipping and transporting of food … more people are getting sick in other parts of the world," Bernstein said.
  
  Physicians often mistake it for a typical case of food poisoning, and that proves worrisome for the patient.
  
  "They're told it will go away in 24 to 48 hours, and then it doesn't," Bernstein said.
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  "Cigua" was once a commonly used Spanish word for a sea snail that supposedly was toxic, Bernstein said.
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  Bernstein, who was planning a weekend fishing trip for his father's birthday, said ciguatera shouldn't spoil anybody's fun.
  
  "I think about it" when fishing, he said.

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  Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein, medical director of the Florida Poison Information Center, said his office often gets calls concerning over-the-counter cold products.
  
  "There's a certain amount of toxicity that comes with all medications, but especially with these medications," Bernstein said."We see a lot of adverse reactions to it, and we do see some deaths occasionally."
  
  The bad reactions are not limited to infants, he said.Teenagers use some of the products as a way to get high.
  
  Bernstein said the brandname medication Coricidan Cough and Cold - which teens refer to as "triple C" - is very popular and commonly involved in calls to the center.The drug's maker, Schering- Plough, could not be reached for comment.
  
  "Not a day goes by that we don't see a case or several cases of it," Bernstein said.
  
  Symptoms can include rapid heartbeat, flushing, altered mental status, and at higher doses, seizures and even cardiac arrest, he said.

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