objective: acetaminophen is an over-the-counter drug in iran. intentional and accidental poisoning with this drug is one of the most frequent causes of admission to our center. we studied the outcome of poisoning with this drug in our hospital. methods: over a two-year period from january 2005 to january 2007, 85 patients who were admitted to sina hospital for acute acetaminophen poisoning, wer...

background: prevention of  suicide is one of  the most important issues of  community medicine in the world. because of  high accessibility of  people to different drugs in our society, one of   the easiest ways of  suicide is intentional self‑poisoning. in this study, demographic factors and health status of  the patients with intentional self‑poisoning were evaluated. methods: a cross‑section...

Hair dye poisoning (Paraphenylenediamine-PPD) is a crucial cause of both intentional self-harm and accidental in the developing world. paraphenylene-diamine synthetic chemical that can local as well systemic manifestation, these are cervicofacial edema, laryngeal edema with stridor, rhabdomyolysis, severe metabolic acidosis acute renal failure. Intervention earlier at right time has been shown ...

This study was aimed at assessing prevalence, circumstance, and management of acute pesticide poisoning in hospitals in Kampala. It was a retrospective cross-sectional study that involved reviewing of 739 poisoning patient records from 5 hospitals in Kampala. Of the 739 patients, 212 were due to pesticide poisoning resulting in a prevalence of 28.8%. About 91.4% (191/210) of the cases were due ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the etiologic and demographic characteristics of acute adult poisoning cases and to obtain up-to-date information on acute poisonings. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate 1254 adults who presented with acute poisoning to the Emergency Department of our tertiary care university hospital in central Turkey from January 2007 to December 2009. The data ext...

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a defined population, identifying those at greatest risk from acute poisoning resulting in admission to hospital or death. METHODS A retrospective study with routinely collected information, set in the former West Midlands Regional Health Authority; population of 5.2 million. The data comprised 939 deaths and 701 hos...

introduction: intentional and unintentional poisoning are among the most common reasons for referrals to emergency department (ed). therefore, the present study was designed to evaluate epidemiologic features and effective risk factors of intentional and unintentional poisoning in children. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was carried out in ed of loghman hakim hospital, greatest...

Introduction: Acute poisoning is an injury in which the toxic effects occur almost immediately, usually within hours from the time of exposure. It is a common reason for visits to emergency departments and for hospitalization worldwide and its morbidity and mortality is becoming a major public health issue in many countries. Objective: To review currently existing literature on the global Epide...

OBJECTIVE Recent data suggest that patients surviving acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (COP) may have increased risk for long-term mortality. The objective of this study was to analyze long-term mortality of a large population of CO-poisoned patients treated at one medical center over three decades. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of patients treated with hyperbaric oxygen and surviving...