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PubMed1978

One year's experience in a regional poison control center: The Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center.

The Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, has served as a regional poison center since 1971. Between 1972 and 1976 the call load has more than tripled, with the highest frequency of calls per population coming from counties most proximate to the center. Two-thirds of the cases involve children age five or less, with 18 or over being the next large group. Adolescents and school-age children comprised the smallest group of cases. Two predominant types of poisonings were encountered: accidental ingestions of toxic substances in children and intentional self-poisonings in adults, but the poison center handled almost every conceivable type of poisoning or toxic situation. A detailed analysis of the center's overall experience as well as these two major categories is presented.

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PubMed1978

National Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers.

The Clearinghouse was originally conceived to coordinate information flow among the then few Poison Control Centers. Services were to be provided through the state health departments where complete control over the individual state's poison centers was to reside. No authority to establish or regulate centers, or to set standards for staffing and operation of centers, or to designate regional centers was granted. However, growth in the numbers of centers, more sophistocation in the state of the art, more demands for product and human experience data, calls for research support, regionalization, standards setting, competency testing, and others has led to an increasing call for more and more Clearinghouse involvement in the entire poison control program. Though staffing and funding remains fairly constant, the Clearinghouse hopes to be as involved and to provide as great a service as possible to those involved in clinical toxicology and poison control.

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PubMed1979

Paraquat poisoning: Experience of Poison Control Centers in France.

Seventy acute intoxications with paraquat have been collected in 11 out of the 17 French Poison Control Centers from 1970 to 1977. The main route of intoxication is oral ingestion and accounts for all the lethal cases (24). Accidental ingestion may be severe : 7 deaths out of 25 cases but suicidal intoxications have a more important morality rate : 17 deaths out of 22 cases. The addition of an emetic to the formulation of this herbicide will lower the severity of this acute poisoning and will be demonstrated by the survey of the next cases of paraquat poisoning.

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