Pharmacist, Amazonas Poison Control Center, Getúlio Vargas University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Pharmacist, Department of Science and Technology, Secretariat of Science and Technology and Strategic Inputs, Ministry of Health, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. Medical student, Amazonas Poison Control Center, Getúlio Vargas University Hospital,...

Introduction The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses the National Poison Data System (NPDS) to conduct surveillance of calls to United States PCs. PCs provide triage and treatment advice for hazardous exposures through a free national hotline. Information on demographics, health effects, implicated substance(s), medical outcome of the patient, and other variables are collected...

Drug and Poison Information Centers (DPICs) have a critical role in the fulfillment of rational drug use programs and provide services to the scientific community with the aim of improving the health and safety of drug use. This was a retrospective study on recorded calls of DPICs in Iran from March 2012 to March 2013. Data consisted of general information; drug and poisoning information, medic...

BACKGROUND Iron poisoning is a major cause of unintentional poisoning death in young children. The US Food and Drug Administration proclaimed a regulation for unit-dose packaging of iron supplements in 1997. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the requirement for unit-dose packaging of iron supplements decreases the incidence of iron ingestion and the incidence of deaths due to iron poisoning in c...

BACKGROUND Case reports have identified hydrofluoric acid (HF) as causing fatal work injury, and HF has both local and systemic toxicity. Surveillance for HF-related mortality is problematic because of the lack of unique coding for this acid in hospital records and vital statistics. METHODS We identified HF-related fatal work injuries investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Adminis...

Contact with poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is one of the most widely reported ailments at poison centers in the United States, and this plant has been introduced throughout the world, where it occurs with other allergenic members of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae). Approximately 80% of humans develop dermatitis upon exposure to the carbon-based active compound, urushiol. It is not known...

Strategies for the control of vertebrate pest are identified using mathematical models of poisoning. The models integrate aspects of foraging ecology and toxicology in a probabilistic framework. The structure, assumptions and control implications of the models are presented. Variables (control parameters) influencing the probability that a pest animal dies in a poison programme are identified a...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug events in the ambulatory care setting are not uncommon and can cause significant morbidity. Little research has been published on the management of adverse drug events involving insulin in the outpatient setting. OBJECTIVE To analyze data on patients with unintentional therapeutic errors involving insulin managed by 9 regional poison control centers. METHODS A retros...