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AAP Grand Rounds 15:31 (2006)
© 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics

INJURY AND POISON PREVENTION

Misdosing of Medications Prompts Most Poison Calls About Young Infants

Source: Coco TJ, King WD, Slattery AP. Descriptive epidemiology of infant ingestion calls to a regional poison control center. South Med J. 2005;98:779–783.[Medline]

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Children aged ≤6 months are poisoned primarily as a result of a caregiver providing the wrong dose of medication. Dosing based upon weight and body surface area and the need to measure small doses further increase risk. Researchers from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, retrospectively reviewed all calls to the Birmingham Regional Poison Control Center during a 1-year period (December 28, 2002–December 28, 2003). During that period, 358 calls concerned infants aged ≤6 months (mean age 4 months). Fifty-nine percent of ingestions involved medications, most commonly ranitidine (11%), metoclopramide (9%), . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Blaise A. Nemeth, MD, MS, FAAP1 and Murray L. Katcher, MD, PhD, FAAP2
1 Pediatrics and Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI
2 Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Madison, WI

 



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