report of 267 cases of scorpion bite referring to an emergency department during one year

Report of 267 Cases of Scorpion Bite Referring to an Emergency Department during One Year

Scorpion bite is a common health problem in many parts of the world, including the Iran's tropics. There are thousands of cases and a number of deaths due to scorpion bite every year in the country. The present study aims to provide further data regarding the details, complications and outcomes of scorpion bite cases referring to Razi Hospital, Ahwaz, from March 2011 to April 2012. 267 patients...

Chloroform in Cases of Scorpion Bite

Recently, however, my own baby was stung by a scorpion. I gave him whiffs of chloroform and within two minutes he went under. The anaesthesia lasted for about ten minutes. Only for this short ^while was the child quiet. As soon as he came round, he began to cry as loudly as before, and the pain and suffering were as intense as ever. After about 3 hours, exhausted by crying and probably relieved...

The Analysis of Poisoning Cases Presented to the Emergency Department within a One-Year Period

OBJECTIVES Intoxication is the emergence of unwanted signs and symptoms in an organism after exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical or organic materials. In our study, we evaluated demographic and etiological factors of adult patients admitted to the emergency department with suicidal or accidental poisoning. METHODS This study was conducted retrospectively by using data from the ...

Presenting complaints and patient volume in an Emergency Department during one year

Background Emergency departments (EDs) have a different case-mix than traditional medical and surgical departments. Knowledge of what complaints patients present with at EDs and their incidence is needed. Previous studies on ED case-mix have largely focused on the incidence of different diagnoses. This study aims to create a number of categories that cover the majority of presenting complaints ...

One-year epidemiology of fever at the Emergency Department.

BACKGROUND Although fever is recognised as a major presentation symptom at Emergency Departments (EDs) and is often used as a rationale for the institution of antibiotics, few studies describing patients with fever as the sole inclusion criterion at the ED of a general hospital have been performed. The objective of this study is to describe epidemiology of non-surgical febrile patients at the E...

Scorpion Bite