OBJECTIVES - To determine the accidental factors and the clinical symptoms in eight cases of occupational poisoning of port workers by carbon monoxide. - To consider the primary prevention of this serious pathology occurring at work. METHODS - To analyze the circumstances of the exposure to carbon monoxide in the employees in the naval repair sector. - To indicate the systemic failures causin...

Lead poisoning is the most significant and prevalent disease of environmental origin among US children. Despite over 100 years' knowledge of the special hazards of lead exposure for young children, it has taken over a century for effective primary prevention to be adopted. Obstacles to primary prevention have included deliberate campaigns by industry to prevent restrictions upon such uses on le...

Objectives—To investigate outcome, management, and prevention in Munchausen syndrome by proxy, nonaccidental poisoning, and non-accidental

High mortality of livestock is caused annually by the plant, Dichapetalum cymosum (gifblaar), in the Northern Transvaal. So far no therapeutic measures have been developed for the prevention or treatment of this poisoning. In this presentation, the efficacy of acetamide as therapy for experimental gifblaar poisoning was tested in 18 sheep. When 2.5-5 g/kg of acetamide was dosed to sheep at vari...

background: self-immolation and intentional poisoning are two common methods for suicidal attempts in developing countries. few studies have compared the characteristics of people who commit suicide by self-immolation or intentional poisoning. hence, the aim of this study was to compare demographic, social, and psychological features between these two groups. methods: in the present study, pati...

background: poisoning is one of the important reasons for children’s admission to hospital. knowledge of epidemiology of poisoning in each region plays an important role in planning prevention, care, and treatment of patients. this study was conducted to determine the characteristics of acute poisoning epidemiology in children attending pediatric wards of amirkabir hospital in arak in a five-ye...

Background: Poisoning is one of the important reasons for children’s admission to hospital. Knowledge of epidemiology of poisoning in each region plays an important role in planning prevention, care, and treatment of patients. This study was conducted to determine the characteristics of acute poisoning epidemiology in children attending pediatric wards of Amirkabir Hospital in Arak in a five-...

I n the past 2 decades, preventable injuries in children and adolescents have been on the decline. This decrease in injuries is a positive outcome of many years of injury prevention activities; however, one area in which injury rates are on the rise is drug poisoning. In fact, the number of poisoning incidences in youth aged 15 to 19 years doubled between 2000 and 2009. This sharp increase in p...