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Role of the Poison Control Centre of Morocco in the Improvement of Public Health [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2013
Background: Poison Control Centre of Morocco (MPCC) plays a key role in promoting health. This study was aimed to demonstrate the role of the MPCC in improving public health and poisoning management.
Naima Rhalem, Rachida Aghandous, Hanane Chaoui, Rhislane Eloufir, Narjis Badrane, Maria Windy, Houria Hardouz, Lahcen Ouammi, Abdelmjid Soulaymani, Rachida Soulaymani-Bencheikh   +9 more
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Increases in exposure calls related to selected cleaners and disinfectants at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: data from Canadian poison centres

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2021
Little is known about the use or misuse of cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic. We compiled data from January to June in 2019 and 2020 from Canadian poison centres, and report on calls regarding selected cleaning products and present year ...
Yasseen III, Abdool, Weiss, Deborah, Remer, Sandy, Dobbin, Nina, MacNeill, Morgan, Bogeljic, Bojana, Leong, Dennis, Wan, Victoria, Mosher, Laurie, Bélair, Guillaume, Thompson, Margaret, Button, Brooke, Hardy, James, Perwaiz, Shahid, Smith, Alysyn, Wootton, Richard   +15 more
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Investigating Childhood and Adolescence Poisoning Exposures in New Zealand Reported to the National Poisons Centre during 2000-2009 [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2013
Background: Poisoning incidents, in both children and adolescents, are known to occur in New Zealand but little is known about the agents implicated. Methods: All the calls received over the ten years between 2000 and 2009, by the National Poison Centre ...
Anny Fan, Arthur Che, Benny Pan, Cindy Yang, Carolyn Coulter, Lucy Shieffelbien, Wayne Temple, Rhiannon Braund   +7 more
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Annual Report of the Poison Control Centre, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt, 2012 [PDF]

Ain Shams Journal of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, 2013
Background:  Poisoning is a growing potential threat to the Egyptian community. The Poison Control Centre Ain Shams University Hospitals (PCCA) received 19 744 cases in the year 2012.
Mahmoud El Guindi, Saad Nageeb, Heba Halawa   +2 more
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Adverse effects and intoxications related to medicinal/harmful plants

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2014
Many wild plants around us have beneficial effects on our body and can be used as food. People are more and more interested in the medicinal plants. Many of them began gathering and preparing plants for the relief of symptoms of diseases or as a food ...
Mateja VONČINA, Dea BARIČEVIČ, Miran BRVAR   +2 more
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Food Confusion Between Edible and Poisonous Plants: A 22-Year Retrospective of the Southeastern France Poison Control Center

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Objective: In some regions of the globe, accidental food confusion regarding plants can cause severe poisoning events and deaths. The aim of this study was to report on those confusions from the Marseille Poison Control Centre’s (PCC) experience from ...
Romain Torrents, Julien Reynoard, Mathieu Glaizal, Corinne Schmitt, Katharina Von Fabeck, Audrey Boulamery, Luc De Haro, Nicolas Simon   +7 more
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Assessment of carbon monoxide poisoning surveillance in the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, Morocco: Insights from a capture-recapture Study [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
In Morocco, poisoning surveillance is ensured by a vigilance system developed and implemented by the Moroccan Anti-Poison Control Centre (MPCC) since 1980.
Hmimou Soumaia, Soulaymani Aida, Mokhtari Abdelrhani, Soulaymani-Bencheikh Rachida   +3 more
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First line anti-tuberculosis induced hepatotoxicity: incidence and risk factors

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
In our days, tuberculosis, whet ever its localization, became a curable disease. The cornerstone is a 6 month course of isoniazid, rifampicine and pyrazinamide.
Omaima El Bouazzi, Sanaa Hammi, Jamal Eddine Bourkadi, Amina Tebaa, Driss Soussi Tanani, Rachida Soulaymani-Bencheikh, Narjis Badrane, Rachid Bengueddour   +7 more
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The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundThere is evidence from 2 previous meta-analyses that interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours are effective in increasing a range of poison prevention practices in households with children.
Felix A Achana, Alex J Sutton, Denise Kendrick, Persephone Wynn, Ben Young, David R Jones, Stephanie J Hubbard, Nicola J Cooper   +7 more
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Acute intoxication following massive bupropion sniffing: A case report

Emergency Care Journal, 2021
Bupropion intranasal misuse potential should be considered in the suspect of sympathomimetic syndrome for illicit drug or medication intoxication. A 31-year-old man was admitted for intranasal misuse of 30 crushed tablets of bupropion with adrenergic ...
Simone Sartori, Valentina Brilli, Cecilia Lanzi, Luca Pratticò, Elisabetta Sarcoli, Maria Grazia Di Milia, Francesco Gambassi, Guido Mannaioni   +7 more
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