[Current status and role of the Japanese Association of Clinical Toxicology].
Since its foundation in 1983, the Japanese Association of Clinical Toxicology (JACT) has contributed greatly to the progress of intoxication medicine in Japan. It assists toxicologists and other medical experts in sharing clinical experience, including unusual intoxication cases and those found only in certain regions. As a result, toxicologists no longer must rely on intuition and personal experience. Today, the association focuses on disseminating useful intoxication information among toxicologists and the general public through the Japan Intoxication Information Center. With strong support from JACT, the center is developing a database that will provide useful information to physicians who need to identify poisonous chemicals quickly in their toxic patients. It is also building a system for registering intoxication treatment experts which will be publicly accessible, and an Internet Web site to provide intoxication-related information online. JACT itself is also preparing to establish the Japan Intoxication Analysis Center. JACT is committed to improving intoxication medicine in Japan by continuing to help train toxicologists and the medical specialists who support them, making useful information readily available to them, and assisting them to identify toxic materials.
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Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
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