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Management of Acetaminophen Toxicity
Lars C. Larsen and Stephen H. Fuller
American Family Physician. January 1996.
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According to 1993 data, over 94,000 exposures to acetaminophen-containing medications in the United States necessitated contact with poison control centers.[1] Such cases represented approximately 70 percent of poison control center inquiries in the United States and do not include patients who ingested toxic doses of acetaminophen and did not contact a poison control center. Fifty percent of exposures were in children less than six years of age, although no acetaminophen-related deaths occurred in this age group. Sixty-three percent of all acetaminophen poisonings were accidental, resulting in a total of 92 deaths. The actual number of exposures to potentially toxic amounts of acetaminophen is probably much higher than that reported.
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