Report of the Poison Control Centre for the period 1 November 2005 - 31 January 2006.
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The Croatian national Poison Control Centre, a health service founded in 1974 by the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health in Zagreb, provides a 24-hour telephone guidance for poisoning emergencies, information and consultations on toxic exposure for occupational health physicians, professional and public health education in toxicology and poison control and other poison prevention measures. This service is open to general public, medical professionals and health authorities, and provides relevant information on the toxicity of substances, plants or animals, as well as relevant information on diagnosing, monitoring and treatment of poisoned patients as well as animal poisoning. The Centre is staffed by a pharmacologist as the head and seven physicians, two of whom are internal medicine specialists, one epidemiologist, one neurologist, two occupational medicine specialists and one general practitioner. The report that follows brings the basic quarterly statistics which include the number of calls, information users, patient and poisoning profiles. received 238 phone calls reporting 242 cases. In most cases, information users were medical doctors (94 % of the total number of calls) and only 6 % were private calls. The average age of patients was 13 years, and the most prevalent age groups (44 % of total number of patients) were infants and preschool children
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
دوره 57 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006