Self-Poisoning

Management of self poisoning.

Around 15%20% of the workload of medical units and 10% of the workload of accident and emergency departments in the United Kingdom are due to self poisoning.1 2 Episodes of self poisoning in the United Kingdom continue to rise, particularly in young men, and alcohol is often taken with the overdose.2 In general the severity of poisoning has diminished over the past 10 years with the introductio...

Attitudes towards self-poisoning.

Self-poisoning now constitutes one of the prime emergencies in hospital medical practice. This paper describes the results of the study of the attitudes of physicians and senior nurses towards several common illnesses in the medical wards. The junior doctors and the nurses who frequently have primary responsibility for the care of the self-poisoners tend to show unfavourable attitudes towards t...

Patterns of self poisoning.

A population of 935 hospital admissions for self poisoning over a five-year period, 1967-71, was taken from three general hospitals in the Chichester area. All admissions were followed up by use of coroner's records. The peak age group for accidental self poisonings was 0-9 with a further peak in the over 60 age group. The peak age for attempted suicides was 20-29. There were more women than me...

Self poisoning with pesticides.

Self-poisoning and self-injury in adults.

There are currently no national registers in England, Scotland and Wales and the national monitoring system in Ireland is in the early stages of development. Epidemiological studies have historically relied on monitoring systems in accident and emergency (A&E) departments or in psychiatric services, but gathering accurate data from either source is difficult. These methods fail to account for p...