Increase Trend in Mortality and Morbidity from Tityus Trivitattus Envenomation (TTE) in Argentina

M Evangelista, JC Piola, JC Waksman and DB Prada

NACCT 2006 - North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology.
October 4-9, 2006. Hyatt Regency San Francisco, California

Background

Organized data collection on Fatal Poisonings (FP) is an important factor in determining the potential toxicity of chemicals in a region, and therefore, may help in preventing intoxications. Poison Centers' data can be particularly helpful for this purpose.
Mortality data reported by Poison Centers constitutes a relative accurate and reliable source of information on poisoning- related deaths, however, it poorly reflects on the real incidence of poisonings.
Twelve poison centers are dispersed throughout the entire Argentinean territory, serving a population of 38 millions of residents.
A centralized multicenter exposure surveillance system like the North AmericanToxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS) is unavailable impeding the development of better strategies for poison prevention and control.
SERTOX is located in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina serving a population of more than 3.000.000 inhabitants. Since 1990, SERTOX pioneered the creation of a systematic collection system of poison information data from its coverage area, a system absent in the majority of the other Argentinean poison control centers.
In a previous article, we reported the incidence of FP from 1990 to 19991. The purpose of this work is to present further data, which was collected through 2005

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