background: the provision of accurate and timely drug information to health care professionals is an important mechanism to promote safe and effective drug therapy for patients. world’s drug and poison information centers (dpics) are mainly affiliated to hospitals, rather rarely with faculties of pharmacy or with faculties of medicine and other related organizations. methods: data was collected...

The authors analysed a series of 557 consecutive patients who suffered cardiorespiratory arrest at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology (DPIC) during a period of 5 years in order to examine factors predicting successful resuscitation and long-term survival. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers were tried in 536 patients, with the following results: 284 patients (53%) died immedi...

The Pharmacy Services Department of King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) established a poison control service in conjunction with their drug information center in October 1983. The primary goal of the poison information service was to offer expert advice from well-trained clinical pharmacists in the management of poisoning cases throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The service was made ava...

The Mashhad drug and poison information center (MDPIC) was officially established in 2000 to provide up-to-date information on medications. The objective of this study is to provide an epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to MDPIC from 2007 to 2017. This article is a descriptive retrospective study in which all inquiries about drugs and poisoning cases receive...

The Mashhad drug and poison information center (MDPIC) was officially established in 2000 to provide up-to-date information on medications. The objective of this study is to provide an epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to MDPIC from 2007 to 2017. This article is a descriptive retrospective study in which all inquiries about drugs and poisoning cases receive...