Multicentre Prospective Observational Study of Acute Intoxications in Paediatric Age

Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Acute Intoxication

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06291649

AMIETOX

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acute intoxications represent a major public health problem, especially when affect a population such as children, who are vulnerable and at greater risk of unintentional and preventable poisonings.

The primary objective of the study is to assess the epidemiology of acute intoxications in paediatric age with respect to the social and care factors associated with it in order to then implement in the future a better diagnostic-therapeutic management modality on a national level.

Thi is a prospective non-profit multicentre observational cohort study on acute intoxications in the paediatric age, conducted by AMIETOX, aimed at CAVs (Poison Control Centres) and PSPs (Paediatric emergency room).

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects between the ages of 1 month and 16 years who report to the PSPs or contact by telephone the CAVs participating in the study with acute intoxication (defined as contact with a substance that is toxic per se or in such quantities as to cause a harmful effect on the body or administered by a route not intended for that substance)

Exclusion criteria

• not acquired informed consent