منابع مشابه
[Accidental poisoning in children].
In a statement by the United States Secretary of Health an estimate was made that in that country there were 600,000 non-fatal and 500 fatal poisonings of children annually (Flemming, 1960). Papers by Jacobziner and Raybin (1956) and Kubryk and McKenzie (1958) discuss the problem of poisoning of children in the United States and Canada respectively. This paper shows the position in England and ...
متن کاملAccidental poisoning in children.
OBJECTIVE To assess the pattern of acute poisoning in children at Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi. METHODS The one-year descriptive study was conducted in the Paediatric Emergency Unit of the Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, involving all patients under 12 years of age who visited the unit with a history of accidental exposure to toxic substances. D...
متن کاملAccidental poisoning in children.
Accidental poisoning is a common medical emergency and major cause of mortality in infants and toddlers. In our country, the family size is large and accommodation small. Poisonous substances are kept in easily accessible places. This, combined with a lack of supervision by the parents is one of the main reasons for the appreciable number of cases of poisoning admitted to this hospital. We repo...
متن کاملAccidental poisoning in young children.
Cases of accidental childhood poisoning admitted to hospital were compared with community controls and hospital controls matched for age and sex. The relative risks of factors in the cases compared with both the control groups were significant for roughness, aggressiveness, noisiness, and pica behaviour in the child, and for large families. Mothers' knowledge of the toxicity of common household...
متن کاملAccidental poisoning of young children.
Deaths from violence constitute the largest single group of deaths to which children aged 1-4 fall victim. The accidental ingestion of poisonous substances is a small but important cause of these deaths. During the decade 1940-49 the Registrar General for England and Wales reported the deaths of 218 children aged 1-4 from accidental poisoning other than by toxic gases. An account of the substan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5629.514