TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Activated Charcoal Administration A1 - Lu, Jenny J. A2 - Reichman, Eric F. PY - 2018 T2 - Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e AB - The adsorptive capacity of charcoal has been documented since the time of Hippocrates and has been known for centuries. Two independent researchers were responsible for its wide acceptance in the early nineteenth century when each of them performed a demonstration of its effectiveness by ingesting lethal doses of strychnine and arsenic, respectively, followed by charcoal. Both of them survived. The twentieth century has seen charcoal come into wide medical use as further investigation showed its effectiveness at adsorbing a variety of compounds.1Activated charcoal is currently the most commonly used mode of decontamination in the Emergency Department for poisoned patients.2 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159799186 ER -