Scientific Committee Clinical Toxicology

Chairwoman: PD Dr. rer. nat. Hilke Andresen-Streichert, Forensic Toxicology, Institute of Legal Medicine, University clinics of Cologne 

Objectives 

• Promoting scientific activities (Analytics, interpretation data etc.)
• Improvement, standardisation and validation of clinical toxicology services
• Promoting postgraduate professional education and continuing education
• Becoming an advisory board for scientific institutions and institutions subject to public law
• Cooperation with other national and especially international societies and scientific committees for achieving our goals
• Organising symposia etc.

Activities 

• Two annual meetings, one in spring in Mosbach or Munich (Analytica) and one in autumn after the GTFCh workshops with task distribution (assignment book) for members
• E-Mailing list for quick information or requests e.g. in unclear emergency cases
• Publishing of case reports in T+K and TIAFT bulletin
• Set-up and maintenance of the GTFCh Klintox-laboratory list (who analyses what, wherein, how, and when?)
• Set-up and updating of the GTFCh pharmacokinetic databank

Results 

• Symposium on the occasion of the Analytica-conference in April 1998 (see announcement in T+K, 64/2)
• Listing of toxicological data sources
• Symposium on the occasion of Medica 1999
• Adoption and examination of the TIAFT Reference Blood Level List of Therapeutic and Toxic Substances (Uges 2004, update 2005 as pdf)
• Recommendations by the scientific committee Clinical Toxicology of the GTFCh for toxicological analysis in the context of the determination of brain-death
• Development of regulations for postgraduate professional education to the professional title “Clinical Toxicologist GTFCh“ and continuing education

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