A Day in the Life of Your Poison Center
A Snapshot of the Calls We Receive
Have you ever wondered why someone would call a Poison Center? Or, what kind of calls would a Poison Center handle? The full PDF version of "A Day in the Life of Your Poison Center" captures the various scenarios of calls that a Poison Center may manage on any given day, and demonstrates how a call to the Poison Center may begin.
Below is a snapshot of “A Day in the Life of Your Poison Center”. On the particular day this log was recorded, the Cincinnati Children’s Drug & Poison Control Center took 149 calls. To get an idea of the scope of these calls, check out the numbers below.
The 149 calls taken included:
63
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Calls regarding children |
51
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Calls regarding adults |
33
|
Calls from Emergency Rooms |
26
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Calls to identify medication |
4
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Calls regarding pets |
3
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Calls from law enforcement officers |