The hospital pharmacist is ideally
situated to perform a good public
service by helping to prepare and manage poison control centers. Most poison
treatment centers and lots of poison
information centers are founded in hospitals. Therefore, the logical person to
maintain these centers is that the hospital
pharmacist who is qualified to line up
and maintain the antidotes needed for
the emergency treatment of the everincreasing number of accidental poisonings.
The National Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers has noted that a
poison center consists of a poison treatment center and a poison information
center combined. Each hospital with a pharmacy should have a
poison treatment center which should
be co-ordinated with 'the local poison
control center. Likewise every poison
control center should have a hospital
pharmacist on its committee. If there
is not a hospital pharmacist active on
the local center's committee then it's
time something was done about it.
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