Deaths caused by drug poisoning of unintentional and undetermined intent are an increasing problem in Utah and elsewhere in the United States. To characterize the trend in drug-poisoning deaths in Utah, CDC and the Utah Department of Health analyzed medical examiner (ME) data for 1991-1998 and 1999-2003. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that, during 1991-200...

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...

BACKGROUND The continued high mortality and morbidity rates for unintentional childhood injuries remain a public health concern. This article reports on the influence of a home visitation programme (HVP) on household hazards associated with unintentional childhood injuries in a South African low-income setting. METHODS A randomised controlled trial (n=211 households) was conducted in a South ...

During 2010-2015, a total of 2,244 deaths resulted from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning, with the highest numbers of deaths each year occurring in winter months. In 2015, a total of 393 deaths resulting from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning occurred, with 36% of the deaths occurring in December, January, or February.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the lack of knowledge of toxic agents in households is a risk factor for individual unintentional childhood poisoning. METHODS The case group (n = 25) was composed of caregivers of children under 60 months of age who underwent accidental oral poisoning and were treated at two reference hospitals in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, and recorded in the Toxicology ...

Background: Poisoning and drug overdose is a common medical emergency for children. Majority of childhood poisonings are unintentional. To see the change in epidemiology spectrum poisoning children during COVID period this study was conducted because COVID-19 has changed mental, socioeconomical, education status people which also effected mental health Methods: Prospective cross-sectional obser...

CONTEXT Unintentional carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning causes approximately 2100 deaths in the United States per year, but the use of CO detectors could potentially prevent many of these deaths. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of potentially preventable unintentional CO poisoning deaths in New Mexico. DESIGN Descriptive analysis. POPULATION STUDIED A total of 136 deaths from CO poiso...

BACKGROUND Two counter trends in injury mortality have been separately reported in the US in recent times - a declining suicide rate and a rapidly rising unintentional poisoning mortality rate. Poisoning suicides are especially difficult to detect, and injury of undetermined intent is the underlying cause-of-death category most likely to reflect this difficulty. We compare suicide and poisoning...

Poisoning in childhood 55 Accidental child poisoning 55 Deliberate self-poisoning in older children 56 Non-accidental poisoning 56 Treatment of child poisoning 56 Chronic poisoning 57 Notes on poisoning with individual substances 58 Unintentional injuries 60 Defi ning injuries 60 Sources of data on injury 60 Mortality data 60 Morbidity data 61 Hospital admission data 61 Emergency department dat...

INTRODUCTION Poisoning remains a major worldwide public health problem. Mortality varies by country, region and ethnicity. The objective of this study is to analyze recent trends in poisoning mortality in the Mexican population. METHODS Data regarding mortality induced by poisoning was obtained from a publicly available national database maintained by the National Institute of Statistics and ...