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...

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...

Poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans, and poison oaks, T. diversilobum and T. pubescens, are perennial woody species of the Anacardiaceae and are poisonous, containing strong allergens named urushiols that cause allergic contact dermatitis. Poison ivy is a species distributed from North America to East Asia, while T. diversilobum and T. pubescens are distributed in western and eastern North Ameri...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Epinephrine autoinjectors are known to result in accidental digital injections. Treatment recommendations and adverse outcomes are based on case reports. The objective of our study is to determine the frequency of digit ischemia after epinephrine autoinjector digital injections. In addition, we describe the frequency of epinephrine digital injections, treatments used, adverse lo...

On January 9, 1996, CDC was notified about carbon monoxide (CO)-related morbidity and mortality associated with the blizzard in the northeastern United States. Most of these poisonings occurred among children and elderly persons and resulted from exposures in idling automobiles with exhaust pipes blocked by snow. This report summarizes three cases of CO poisoning reported to Philadelphia's Pois...