RobertBrentFurbeeMD

Emergency Medicine • Indianapolis, IN

Medical Toxicology

Professor Emeritus, Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

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Office
1701 N. Senate Ave
Indiana Poison Center B402
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone+1 317-962-2335

Summary

Dr. Robert Furbee is a Medical Toxicologist in Indianapolis, IN with primary training in Emergency Medicine and is affiliated with Indiana University Health. He received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed an Emergency Medicine residency there as well. He completed his Medical Toxicology fellowship at Banner Health in Phoenix and has been in practice over 40 years.

Education & Training

Banner - University Medical Center PhoenixFellowship, Medical Toxicology, 1991 - 1992
The Methodist Hospitals - NorthlakeResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1977 - 1980
Indiana University School of MedicineClass of 1977
Indiana UniversityB.A., Zoology, 1967 - 1971

Certifications & Licensure

IN State Medical License 1977 - 2025
AZ State Medical License 1991 - 2023
American Board of Emergency Medicine Medical Toxicology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CRTT Honorary Lecture Award Indiana Society for Respiratory Care Robert E. Glass, 2006
Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award 2005

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

7 citations
Cardiac Toxicity from Intentional Ingestion of Pong-Pong Seeds (Cerbera Odollam).
Mary Wermuth, Rais Vohra, Nena Bowman, R. Brent Furbee, Daniel E. Rusyniak
The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2018-10-01
15 citations
Brown Recluse Spider Envenomation
R. Brent Furbee, Louise W. Kao, Danyal Ibrahim
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine. 2006-03-01
4 citations
Criminal poisoning: medical murderers
R. Brent Furbee
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine. 2006-03-01

Journal Articles

Heavy metal poisoning: management of intoxication and antidotes
Rusyniak DE, Arroyo A, Acciani J, Froberg G, Kao L, EXS, 1/1/2010
Plant Poisoning
Froberg BA, Ibrahim D, Emerg Med Clinics of North America, 1/1/2007
Hepatotoxicity associated with herbal products
Barlotta KS, Allen MK, Holstege CP, Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1/1/2006
Historical neurotoxins: what we have learned from toxins of the past about diseases of the present
Rusyniak DE, Pascuzzi RM, Neurology Clinics of North America, 1/1/2005
Drug-induced QT prolongation
Kao LW, Furbee RB, Med Clin North Am, 1/1/2005
Toxicity and drug interactions associated with herbal products: Ephedra and St John’s Wort
Holstege CP, Mitchell K, Barlotta K, Med Clin N Am, 1/1/2005
Arsine gas poisoning after occupational exposure
O'Connor AD, Kao LW, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2005
What is the rate of adverse events after oral N-acetylcysteine administered by the intravenous route to patients with suspected acetaminophen poisoning?
Kao LW, Kirk MA, Mehta NH, Skinner JR, Brizendine EJ, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1/1/2003
Life Threatening Plant Poisonings
Furbee RB; Wermuth ME, Critical Care Clinics of North America, 1/1/1997
The incidence of wound infection following Crotalid envenomation
Clark R, Seldon B, J Emerg Med, 1/1/1993
The Indiana Poison Center: A valuable resource for Indiana Physicians
Beckerich MJ, Mowry JB, Ind Med, 1/1/1989
Veterinary Euthanasia Drugs as Suicide Agents
Cordell, WH; Curry, SC; Mitchel-Flynn, DH, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1/1/1986
Crotalid snake envenomation
Holstege C, Miller MB, Wermuth ME, Curry, SC, Critical Care Clinics of North America
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Books/Book Chapters

The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 305: Opioids; Opioid Poisoning
Snow J, Furbee RBEditors: Harwood-Nuss, Linden, and Wolfson.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, PhiladelphiaEdition 5th,2014
Neurologic Clinics: Frontiers in Neurotoxicology
Chapter: Welding and Parkinsonism
Page 624 - 640Furbee B2011
Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 289: Opioids
Page 1393 - 1398Arroyo A, Furbee BLippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PAEdition 5th,2010
Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
Chapter: Medical serial killers
Page 189 - 211Furbee BEditors: Jones and Bartlett.Sudbury, MA2010
Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
Chapter: Potassium
Page 129 - 135Furbee BEditors: Jones and Bartlett.Sudbury, MA2010
Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
Chapter: Jou-Fang Deng; Plants and Herbals
Page 115 - 127Furbee BEditors: Jones and Bartlett.Sudbury, MA2010
Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
Chapter: Neuromuscular blocking agents
Page 97 - 101Furbee BEditors: Jones and Bartlett.Sudbury, MA2010
Clinical Neurotoxicology: Syndromes, Substances, Environments
Chapter: Chapter 47: Neurotoxic Plants
Page 523 - 542Furbee BSaunders Elsevier2009
Clinical Neurotoxicology: Syndromes, Substances, Environments
Chapter: Chapter 29: Manganese
Page 293 - 301Furbee BSaunders Elsevier2009
Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Isoniazid Poisoning
Mowry JB, Furbee RBLippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PAEdition 6th,2008
Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose
Chapter: Chapter 63: Quinidine; Quinidine, Procainamide, Disopyramide
Page 1009 - 1019Nanagas K, Furbee RBEditors: Haddad, Winchester and Shannon.WB Saunders Co., PhiladelphiaEdition 4th,2007
The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 283: Opioids; Opioid Poisoning
Page 1488 - 1492Murphy P, Furbee RBEditors: Harwood-Nuss, Linden, and Wolfson.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, PhiladelphiaEdition 4th,2005
Critical Care Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Critically Poisoned Patient
Chapter: Chapter 39: Antihistamines
Page 449 - 456Rusyniak D, Furbee BEditors: Brent J, Burkehart K, Donovan JW, Phillips S, Tenenbein M, Wallace K.Mosby, Philadelphia, PA2005
Critical Care Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Critically Poisoned Patient
Chapter: Chapter 68: Antitubulin Agents: Colchicine, Podophyllum, Vincristine and Vinblastine
Page 711 - 722Snyder L, Kao LEditors: Brent J, Burkehart K, Donovan JW, Phillips S, Tenenbein M, Wallace K.Mosby, Philadelphia, PA2005
Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 139: Isoniazid
Page 1504 - 1512Mowry JB, Furbee RBEditors: Rippe JM et al.Little, Brown and Company, BostonEdition 5th,2002
The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 360: Opioid Poisoning
Dribben W, Furbee RBEditors: Harwood-Nuss, Linden, and Wolfson.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publisher, Philadelphia2001
Emergency Neurology Principles and Practice
Chapter: Chapter 41: Neurotoxicology of Alcohol and Substances of Abuse
Zittel SR, Wermuth ME, Miller MBEditors: Shah SM and Kelly KM.Cambridge University Press, New York NY1999
Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 135: Isoniazid
Page 1673 - 1676Mowry JB, Furbee RBEditors: Rippe JM et al.Lippincott - Raven, PhiladelphiaEdition 3rd,1999
Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose
Chapter: Quinidine, Procainamide, Disopyramide
Page 1055 - 1963Witman J, Furbee RBEditors: Haddad, Winchester and Shannon.WB Saunders Co., PhilidelphiaEdition 3rd,1998
The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 352: Opioid Poisoning
Page 1382 - 1386Chisholm CD, Furbee RBEditors: Harwood-Nuss, Linden, Luten, Shephard, and Wolfson.Lippincott-Raven Publishers, PhiladelphiaEdition 2nd,1996
Emergency Guide to Household Poisonings: A comprehensive guide to protect your family
Furbee RB, Mowry JBHarmony House Medical Inc., Louisville, KY1994
The Pharmacologic Approach to the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter: Chapter 59: Poisoning
Page 975 - 1008Mowry JB, Chyka PWilliams & Wilkens, ChernowEdition 3rd,1994
Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Chapter 135: Isoniazid
Page 1297 - 1301Mowry JB, Furbee RBEditors: Rippe JM et al.Little, Brown and Company, BostonEdition 2nd,1991
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Abstracts/Posters

Profound QT prolongation after attempted suicide with intravenous xylazine hydrochloride
Snow JW, Williams K, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2014
Iatrogenic ethanol intoxication
Arroyo AM, Furbee RB, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2008
Chronic mercury inhalation produces acrodynia, tremor and erethism and mimics pheochromocytoma in a 14-year-old
Ibrahim D, Wolff A, Kao LW, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2006
Massive bupropion overdose with recurrent QRS widening and cardiac arrest
Ibrahim D, Kao LW, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2006
Credible Brown Recluse spider bite followed by Id reaction and complete recovery
Ibrahim D, Kao LW, Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2006
Arsine Gas Poisoning after occupational exposure
O’Connor AD, Kao LW, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2005
Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab (Ovine)-Crofab Use for Timber Rattlesnake Induced Thrombocytopenia
Judge BS; Mowry JB; Kao LW; Kirk MA, Indiana ACEP Educational Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 1/12/2002
Survival after massive ingestion of acetaminophen presenting as coma and metabolic acidosis
Rusyniak D, Dribben W, Kirk M, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2000
The coffee pot poisonings: A tale of thallium and arsenic poisoning in a group of automotive workers
Rusyniak D, Kirk M, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/2000
Large subcutaneous elemental mercury injection
Christianson G, Mowry J, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/1999
Brainstem infarction and quadriplegia associated with ethylene glycol ingestion
Dribben W, Kirk M, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/1999
Organ procurement after brodifacoum poisoning
Seifert S, Holstege CP, Kirk MA, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/1998
Wide complex dysrhythmia in calcium channel blocker overdose responsive to sodium bicarbonate therapy
Holstege CP, Kirk MA, Wermuth M, J Toxicol Clin Toxicol, 1/1/1998
Ingestion of Argyreia nervosa (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose) Seeds
Curry SC, Kunkel DB, Vet Hum Toxicol, 1/1/1991
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Other

Toxic Plant Ingestions; First Consul
Furbee B, Elsevier Publishing (online)
1/1/2014