Report of the poison control centre for the period 1 January - 31 December 2009.
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Health continues previous reports published in this journal (1-6). It brings basic annual statistics that include the number of calls received by the Poison Control Centre from January to December 2009, as well as information on callers, patients, and poisoning profi les. In 2009, the Poison Control Centre received 1532 phone calls reporting 1567 cases. Two calls were related to exposure in animals, i.e. exposure to foreign body in a dog and to pesticide methiocarb in a bird. In most cases (90 % of the total number of calls), the callers/information users were healthcare professionals (medical doctors and nurses) and only 10 % were public offi cials in other capacities (e.g. police) and general public. The average age of patients was 15 years (median 4 years), ranging from newborns to 85-year-olds, and the most prevalent age groups were the adults (39 % of the total number of patients with known age) and infants and preschool children (newborns to 5-year-olds; 36 %). As in earlier reports, women were more commonly involved in poisoning then men (66 % vs. 34 %, respectively). In other age groups, male cases were slightly more dominant (56 % men vs. 44 % women). The number of cases peaked from May to August (150 cases a month on average), and dropped in the cold season, i.e. from January to March and in
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
دوره 61 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010