Interview with Janusz Szajewski.

Janusz Szajewski, the founder of the Warsaw Poisons Control Centre and Haemodialysis Unit at Praski Hospital in Warsaw, Poland, was born on February 25, 1924 in Grodzisk, Poland. He undertook his undergraduate studies from 1939 to 1945 at the underground Chrobry College in Piotrkow, Poland, at a time when higher education was outlawed to Poles and punishable by imprisonment at Auschwitz. At war's end, Dr.

[Viper bites].

The common European adder (Vipera berus) is the only naturally occurring venomous snake in Poland. Adder bites occur mainly in the summer usually to individuals who accidentally or purposely bother snakes. Children often become victims of adders.

[Correlation of carbamazepine levels in blood with clinical poisoning states, evaluated with the help of the APACHE II system and the Matthew coma scale].

Acute carbamazepine (CBZ) poisoning occurs recently quite often. Symptomatology of poisoning is variable but usually various degrees of consciousness impairment prevail. 77 patients (36 women and 41 man, mean age 31.