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Título del libro: The Optimization Of Drug Prescribing In Children
Título del capítulo: Unintentional drug poisoning in the pediatric population

Autores UNAM:
MATEO HUGO JUAREZ OLGUIN; MARIA JANETT FLORES PEREZ;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2018
Resumen:

More than 70% of acute pediatric poisoning is caused by medications. The age group sat the greatest risk of this incident are those between 2 to 5 years and 14 to 18 years, although in this last group, drug ingestion is usually intentional. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the frequency of unintentional drug poisoning in pediatric population, and to review the treatment procedures applied in specific cases. In most of the cases, poisoning is confirmed by determining the plasma concentration of the drug. The most frequent cases of drug poisoning were due to the ingestion of drugs like analgesics mainly acetylsalicylic acid and acetaminophen, antiepileptics, anxiolytics and in lesser proportion other drugs. With the exception of accidental ingestion of drugs, drug poisoning in pediatric population is mainly due to dosing error. Self-medication in this population is unlikely for their age. In most of the cases of unintentional drug poisoning seen in this series, the duration of hospitalization did not exceed 24 hours and no death was registered. Dosing error should be a topic of a major concern for hospitals since this error has been found to be the principal cause of unintentional drug poisoning in infants and young children. © 2018 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.


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