Citation

Locatelli C, Petrolini V, Lonati D, Butera R, Bove A, Mela L, Manzo L. Ann. Ist. Super. Sanita 2006; 42(3): 298-309.

Vernacular Title

Disponibilita di antidoti nei servizi d'urgenza del Sistema Sanitario Nazionale e

Affiliation

Centro Antiveleni di Pavia e Centro Nazionale di Informazione Tossicologica, Servizio di Tossicologia, Istituto Scientifico di Pavia, IRCCS Fondazione Maugeri Clinica del Lavoro e della Riabilitazione e Universita degli Studi, Pavia. clocatelli@fsm.it.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Istituto superiore di sanit)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17124354

Abstract

The availability of antidotes in Italian hospitals has been evaluated through the answers to a specific questionnaire sent to all Italian Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units, 118 emergency response system, and Poison Centres. Five Poison Centres and, approximately, the 30% of the Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units of all Italian emergency hospitals answered to the questionnaire. The results point out an insufficient availability of antidotes in the Italian emergency hospitals, with an almost total absence of those necessary for the treatment of less frequent and less known poisonings (e.g. digoxin, industrial agents), also when the antidote is a lifesaving drug. To improve the antidotes availability for the toxicological emergencies and to facilitate its supplying, a "national antidotes data-base" (BaNdA) has been realized, freely available to the hospital services which register themselves and make their antidotes stockpile available.

Language: it