When to call a poisons information centre for cases of unintentional paracetamol poisoning

When treating a patient with unintentional paracetamol poisoning (also referred to as repeated supratherapeutic ingestion [RSTI]), seek advice from a poisons information centre (13 11 26) if there is evidence of hepatotoxicity1.

1 Hepatotoxicity is defined as serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) concentration (or aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) of 1000 U/L or higher.Return