INTRODUCTION: The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik (Figs. 1-2, 6), is frequently reported in Florida as a cause of necrotic lesions in humans. For example, in the year 2000 alone, Loft (2001) reported that the Florida Poison Control Network had recorded nearly 300 alleged cases of brown recluse bites in the state; a subset of 95 of these bites was reported in the 21 cou...

OBJECTIVE Physicians have been surveyed concerning their satisfaction with poison center services but have never been questioned regarding their expectations. This study was conducted to clarify the expectations of emergency physicians in New Mexico regarding the service of their regional poison center, the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center. DESIGN Five New Mexico emergency depart...

Introduction UIs are among the leading causes of injury in children younger than 5 years in NYC1. About 3000 calls are received each year by the NYC Poison Control Center (PCC) for this age group1. Common UI exposures include medications, cosmetics, household cleaners, foreign bodies, and pesticides2. We examined UIs in NYC from January 2010 to July 2014 for children <5 years to investigate the...

OBJECTIVE To assess accidental poisoning in children in the Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda, including the incidence, the types of substances ingested, the age of the children involved, and the clinical outcomes. The results from Antigua and Barbuda were compared with the results of other reports from the English-speaking Caribbean and from the United States of America. DESIGN AND ME...

should educate health-care providers to recognize unusual illnesses that might indicate release of a chemical agent. Strategies for responding to intentional chemical releases include (1) providing information or reminders to health-care providers and clinical laboratories; (2) encouraging reporting of acute poisonings to local poison control centers, which can guide patient management and faci...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National En­ vironmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) expands con­ tent and functionality every year. This year, two new datasets were added: pesticide expo­ sure and 70 years of prospective climate data. These represent two important environmen­ tal public health concerns. In 2012, pesticides were the 10th leading ca...

General concern about increasing reports of emergencies caused by or attributed to the exposure of human beings to various toxic agents has created demand for assessing the informational performance of a Brazilian network of 34 poison control centers (PCCs), located in different regions of the country and pertaining to the National Poison Information System (SINITOX). The primary purpose of the...

background: the current study aimed to test the hypothesis: is suicide predictable? and try to classify the predictive factors in multiple suicide attempts. methods: a cross-sectional study was administered to 223 multiple attempters, women who came to a medical poison centre after a suicide attempt. the participants were young, poor, and single. a logistic regression analiysis was used to clas...