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American Association of Poison Control Centers: Advancing Public Health

AAPCC promotes public health through advocacy, education, and research, offering poison information and support. It partners with various organizations and provides valuable toxicosurveillance data. Stay informed and prevent poison exposures.

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American Association of Poison Control Centers: Advancing Public Health

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  1. American Association of Poison Control Centers dedicated to actively advancing the health care role and public health mission of our members through information, advocacy, education and research. Building Partnerships to Advance Consumer Education

  2. Poison Center Facts:Every day in the United States … • Someone calls a poison center every 8 seconds • Every 90 seconds, a physician consults a poison center

  3. Who We Are • 501(c)3 • Accreditation/Certification • Public Education and Outreach • Media Education and Outreach • Data • Public Health Alerts • Advocacy • National Partners • Publish Annually

  4. Who Calls Poison Centers?Public: 82%; Health Care: 18% Parents/Caregivers Physicians/Nurses Pharmacists Veterinarians Urgent Care Centers Occupational Medicine Centers Health Departments Industry PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) Paramedics/Fire Police Prison Officials Coroners Attorneys Schools Government

  5. What Poison Centers Do • Medical Advice, Adverse Event Reporting • Surveillance • Public Health Information and Reporting • Food Poisoning, Rabies, WMD • Research

  6. 57 Centers Upload Data to NPDS Every 19 minutes All 50 States, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, 3 Pacific Jurisdictions

  7. Most Common Poisons

  8. Medical Advice • Triage and care advice, 24 x 7 x 365 • Treatment recommendations • Pre-hospital guidelines • Board-certified physician backup • Potential for prescribing • H1N1

  9. Toxicosurveillance

  10. AAPCC ToxicosurveillanceRole • Monitor for early indicators of outbreaks • Continuous search for patterns suggesting covert chemical, radiological or biological events • Rapid detection and reporting of chemical, radiological and biological events • Identify chemicals, products, environmental agents and consumer products with potential public health significance

  11. Response: How Do Poison Centers Help? Partners relay accurate, up-to-date, consistent messages and collect data from public Health Emergency Announced Controlled Messages Public initially receives information from the mass media Poison Center Nurse Line Health Hot Line Nearly 25% of the public have questions that centers can help with 1 2 3 Interactive Response Recordings “Tools” for Responding to Qs

  12. Public Health Responses • Contaminated water • Melamine in dog food • Diethylene glycol in toothpaste • E. coli in spinach • Salmonella in peanut butter • Supplement with high concentrations of selenium • Bath salts and THC homolog abuse • Japanese earthquake, tsunami and radiation release • Highly concentrated liquid laundry detergent • Hand sanitizer abuse • Gulf of Mexico oil spill

  13. White House ONDCP Meeting

  14. Application of NPDS Data:Exposures to Bath Salts “On Wednesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration  clamped down on ‘bath salts,’ [with help from] The American Association of Poison Control Centers [which] has logged 4,137 reports of illness from those drugs as of July 31, up from 302 calls in 2010.” 9/28/11

  15. Why Do We Do It? Dart RC. The Secret Life of America’s Poison Centers. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2012; 59:62.

  16. AAPCC Partners

  17. Communications & Media Outreach • Social Media Outreach • Facebook • Twitter • Blog • National Media Outreach • News releases • Spokesperson interviews • Media contacts • White House event

  18. National Poison Prevention Council • American Academy of Pediatrics • American Association of Poison Control Centers • American Cleaning Institute • American College of Emergency Physicians • American Pharmacists Association • ASTM International • Art & Creative Materials Institute Inc. • Consumer Specialty Products Association • Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council • National Safety Council • Safe Kids Worldwide • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission • U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration

  19. Laundry Detergent Packets • Identified issue mid-May 2012 • Distributed news release alert May 17 • Developed fact sheet with safety information for parents/caregivers • Notified ACI about issue and shared news release • Posted ACI information on AAPCC website Keep Highly Concentrated Packets of Laundry Detergent Locked Up and Out of the Reach of Kids

  20. Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

  21. DiscussionCreating New Ventures How Can AAPCC Support Your Messages?

  22. Contact Information Debbie Carr, M.Ed. Executive Director AAPCC carr@aapcc.org

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