TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Toxico-Surveillance of Infant and Toddler Poisonings in the United States
JO  - Journal of medical toxicology
A1  - Finkelstein, Yaron
A1  - Hutson, Janine R.
A1  - Wax, Paul M.
A1  - Brent, Jeffrey
SP  - 263
EP  - 266
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
N2  - Infant and toddler poisonings are important to capture and may be challenging to manage. We aim to describe the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) Case Registry as a tool for toxico-surveillance of this problem in the United States. Using the ToxIC Case Registry database of the American College of Medical Toxicology, we identified infant and toddler poisonings over a 15-month period between April 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011 reported to the 31 Registry sites. Of 6,810 poisoning cases reported to the ToxIC registry, 248 (3.6 %) involved children younger than 2 years (51 % males). Fifty-four percent were hospital inpatients, 42 % were in the Emergency Department and 4 % were outpatients. Sixty-three percent were symptomatic. The most common ingested compounds were highly toxic-cardiac drugs (16 %), psychotropics (15 %), recreational drugs, alcohols, and controlled narcotic drugs (13 %), analgesics (9 %), and cleaning compounds (7 %). Fourteen percent of cases involved multiple agents. The ToxIC registry is a potentially useful toxico-surveillance tool to identify and trend clinically significant poisonings in young children, and potentially other populations. These data could be used to target specific preventive interventions.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-9039
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13181-012-0227-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -