Dr. Stephen L Thornton M.D.
Emergency Physician
4502 W 126th St Leawood KS, 66209About
Dr. Stephen Thornton practices Emergency Medicine in Leawood, KS. Dr. Thornton assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Thornton examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM- Medical Toxicology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- False-positive urine phencyclidine immunoassay screen result caused by interference by tramadol and its metabolites.
- Unintentional chronic acetaminophen poisoning during pregnancy resulting in liver transplantation.
- A retrospective review of early gastrointestinal symptoms in the prediction of crotaline envenomation severity.
- Simultaneous detection of multiple designer drugs in serum, urine, and CSF in a patient with prolonged psychosis.
- Utilization of hyperinsulinemia euglycemia and intravenous fat emulsion following poison center recommendations.
- Synthetic cannabinoid use associated with acute kidney injury.
- Review of Experience of a Statewide Poison Control Center With Pediatric Exposures to Oral Antineoplastic Drugs in the Nonmedical Setting.
- Fatal intravenous injection of electronic nicotine delivery system refilling
- Encephalopathy from unintentional donepezil and memantine ingestion.
- A chance to cut is not always a chance to cure- fasciotomy in the treatment of rattlesnake envenomation: A retrospective poison center study.
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Refractory Hemolysis After Brown Recluse Spider (Loxosceles reclusa) Envenomation.
- Prolonged Antimuscarinic Delirium in a Child Due to Benztropine Exposure Treated With Multiple Doses of Physostigmine.
- Fatal Tension Pneumoperitoneum Due to Non-Accidental Trauma.
- Characteristics of Pediatric Exposures to Antidementia Drugs Reported to a Poison Control System.
- Do trauma patients with phencyclidine-positive urine drug screens have increased morbidity or mortality?
Fellowships
- University of California-San Diego
- Medical Toxicology, University of California - San Diego, San Diego, CA 2012
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