The impact of the introduction of a toxicology service on the intensive care unit

Specialist medical toxicologist consultations provided by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre, 2018–2020

“…7 In various settings and across multiple countries, consultations with poisons centres and involvement of medical toxicologists in patient care has been associated with a variety of benefits including decreased length of stay, reduced healthcare costs and reduced resource utilisation. [8][9][10][11][12][13] The National Poisons Centre (NPC) operates with 15 full-time equivalent staff roles, two of which are medical toxicologist roles. The toxicologist roles are currently filled by registered, vocationally certified emergency medicine specialists who also have formal training and certifications in medical toxicol-ogy from overseas.…”