Dr. Joseph Ward Donovan MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Medical Toxicology
111 S Front St Harrisburg PA, 17101About
Joseph Donovan is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Harrisburg, PA. Donovan specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Donovan participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Mechanical Engineering 1974
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Zopiclone overdose responsive to flumazenil.
- A preliminary study of tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) ovine FAB for TCA toxicity.
- Comment on "Ingestion of slow-release iron treated with gastric lavage - never say late".
- Serotonin syndrome precipitated by fentanyl during procedural sedation.
- Management of isolated yew berry toxicity with sodium bicarbonate: a case report in treatment efficacy.
- Tricyclic antidepressant toxicity treated with massive sodium bicarbonate.
- Fatal fentanyl patch misuse in a hospitalized patient with a postmortem increase in fentanyl blood concentration.
- The toxicologist and delirium: flumazenil as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for delirium during the course of alcohol withdrawal.
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