Mortality From Acute Poisoning in Urmia: A Three- Year Retrospective Study

Mortality From Acute Poisoning in Urmia: A Three- Year Retrospective Study

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Poisoning is the worldwide problem and its mortality has increased dramatically all around the world. Whereas unintentional poisoning deaths were most often a consequence of illicit drugs in prior decades, since the latter half of the 1990s, medications began to account fo...

mortality from acute poisoning in urmia: a three- year retrospective study

Lead Poisoning in Opium Abusers: A Five-year Retrospective Study

Background and purpose: Lead is a metal present in nature that does not play a role in physiological processes of the body. Today, the use of lead in many materials and industries causes environmental contamination. But, the prevalence is unclear among people and the concentration of lead in the blood has never been tested in general .This study was conducted to compare clinical observations an...

A cross-sectional study of children with acute poisoning: A three-year retrospective analysis.

BACKGROUND There is a lack of evidence on description of burden and cases of childhood poisoning in developing countries. This study aimed to assess the characteristics of children with acute poisoning, and factors for time of presentation to health facility and nature of poisoning. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at three major pediatric referral hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethio...

A 13-Year Retrospective Study on Toxic Alcohol Poisoning in Middle Urals, Russia

Background: Toxic alcohol poisonings are responsible for high mortality and morbidity in Russia. This study was aimed to evaluate the trends of harmful ethanol (EtOH) drinking as well as methanol (MeOH), isopropanol (IPA) and ethylene glycol (EG) poisonings in the Middle Urals region of Russia. Methods: In this retrospective study, the medical records of patients poisoned with MeOH, IPA and EG ...