PURPOSE Since 1990, numerous jurisdictions in the United States (US) have reported increases in drug poisoning mortality. During the same time period, the use of opioid analgesics has increased markedly as part of more aggressive pain management. This study documented a dramatic increase in poisoning mortality rates and compared it to sales of opioid analgesics nationwide. METHODS Trend analy...

BACKGROUND Many studies have identified strong correlations between winter months and acute, unintentional carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. In this study, we aimed to investigate the incidence pattern of acute domicile-related CO poisoning in Beijing and its relation with climatic factors. METHODS Data on CO poisoning were collected from the emergency medical service system during August 1, 20...

INTRODUCTION To understand the distribution pattern and time trend of unintentional injury mortalities is crucial in order to develop prevention strategies. METHODS We analyzed vital statistics data from Canada (excluding Quebec) for 2001 to 2007. Mortality rates were age- and sex-standardized to the 2001 Canadian population. An autoregressive model was used for time-series analysis. RESULT...

Violent events are main causes of mortality among children and include intentional (e.g., homicide) and unintentional (e.g., accidents) circumstances. This study investigated the prediction of the self-reported occurrence of 14 violent events among eighth-grade youth from psychosocial variables measured in these same youth in seventh grade. Psychosocial variables inV iolent events include both ...

Childhood lead poisoning is a preventable illness. In the past 3 decades, removal of key lead sources and prevention of exposure in the United States have led to dramatic decreases in population blood lead concentrations and also in instances of severe lead poisoning requiring treatment. From an international perspective, childhood lead poisoning seems to be of greatest concern in developing co...

background:death due to acute poisoning is of medical, legal and social significance. this study was designed to investigate lethal poisonings among dead bodies referred to a regional office of iranian legal medicine organization (ilmo). methods:this was a retrospective descriptive-analytical study on dead bodies referred to fars province regional office of ilmo in shiraz, iran, during april 20...

AIMS This study aims to review the economic cost of childhood (0-18 years) unintentional injuries (UI) and focuses upon comparing the cost burden between developing and developed countries. METHODS Articles were selected from PUBMED using the search words "Economic Cost", "Unintentional injuries" and "Children". Nine articles were selected. RESULTS Studies in China focused upon cost to hosp...

Background: This qualitative study presents an in-depth evaluation of the contributory psycho-socio-cultural and physical-economic factors related to paediatric poisoning in rural Sri Lanka. Method: The study was conducted at paediatric wards of Anuradhapura teaching hospital (THA) over a period of two years (2012 – 2014). Main methods of data collection were participants’ narrative and focus g...

A boy aged 7 years 10 months was admitted to hospital on several occasions in an unconscius state with twitching and apnoeic episodes. Initial investigations failed to show a specific cause. During his time in hospital he had recurrent episodes of loss of consciousness and, on the last occasion, hypotension and ventricular tachycardia. A diagnosis of imipramine poisoning was established by the ...