Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2011
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to describe the situation based on the inquiries to the Toxicological Information Centre (TIC) in Prague, which serves to the total Czech population of approximately 10 million inhabitants. Data from the TIC database from the period 1991 to 2010 have been retrospectively evaluated.
In all years, the information on the type of pecticide, dose, time, and way of exposure, age and gender of the patients, reason of ingestion, symptoms, and treatment recommended was available.