Guidelines for Poison Control This book provides authoritative guidelines for the establishment or improvement of national programmes for poison control. Addressed to policymakers and the administrators of specialized facilities, the book responds to the need for comprehensive advice on the most rationale and effective ways to manage the greatly increased number of poisoned patients seen throug...

OBJECTIVE To determine the need of drug and poison information centres in public and private hospitals of Karachi. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at 3 public and 3 private tertiary care hospitals of Karachi, from July 2013 to April 2014, using a self-administered, multi-item questionnaire. Non-probability convenient sampling was used to select the participants. SPSS 18 was us...

Acute Methemoglobinemia—A Common Occupational Hazard in an Industrial City in Western India: Aruna DEWAN, et al. Poison Information Centre, Nat ional Inst i tute of Occupational Health (NIOH)—Cases of acute methemoglobinemia reported to the Poison Information Centre at NIOH over a period of six years from 1993 to 1999 were analyzed. Of 1067 acute poisonings, there were 30 cases of acute methemo...

This report describes inquiries relating to poisoning cases which were received by the National Poison Centre of Malaysia from the years 1996 to 2000. The study utilized data from the NPC report forms. Only data relating to patient contact with a poison or chemical were included in the analysis. The poison centre received an average of 186 poisoning inquiries per year. Doctors remained the high...

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 preven...

OBJECTIVES Poison control centres provide information on the management of poisoning incidents. The British Columbia (BC) Drug and Poison Information Centre recently implemented an electronic database system for recording case information, making it easier to use case data as a potential source of population-based information on health services usage and health status. This descriptive analysis...

Davide Lonati,1 Carlo Alessandro Locatelli,1 Lucia Fenicia,2 Fabrizio Anniballi,2 Paolo Landri,3 Andrea Giampreti,1 Valeria Margherita Petrolini,1 Sarah Vecchio,1 Luigi Manzo1 1Pavia Poison Center and National Toxicology Information Centre Toxicology Unit, IRCCS Maugeri Foundation and University of Pavia; 2Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, National Reference Centre for Bot...

Of 4736 poisoning incidents registered in the Poison Control Centre in Zagreb from 1985 to 1999, household chemicals caused 23%. In the group of cleaning products, 11% of poisoning incidents were caused by corrosives, 9% by liquid detergents and 4% by hypochlorite. Organic solvents caused 18% of household chemical poisonings; among them gasoline and thinners were the most frequent. Cosmetics we...