Clinico-Epidemiological study of poisoning in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh
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Poisoning is a common medico social problem now a days. The scale of the problem is enormous due to the increased incidence of morbidity and mortality (1). Poisoning is a significant global public health problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data in 2004 an estimated 346 000 people died worldwide from unintentional poisoning of which 91% occurred in lowand middle-income countries. In the same year, unintentional poisoning caused the loss of over 7.4 million years of healthy life (disability adjusted life years, DALYs). Snake bites cause considerable death and injury worldwide and pose an important yet neglected threat to public health. WHO estimates that at least 421 000 envenoming and 20 000 deaths from snakebites occur each year, especially in South and South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. India has the highest estimated annual envenoming and deaths including 81 000 and 11000 respectively (2). Substances involved in poisoning vary widely between different countries. In the United Kingdom, poisoning with paracetamol accounts for 48% of all overdoses, but only 7% of those in the United States, and in Nepal it is very rare. Poisoning with tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and drugs of misuse is very common in the United Kingdom and the United States. Australia has a similar range of ingested toxins to the United Kingdom but envenoming with snakes, spiders and marine creatures is also very common. In South and South-east Asia, pesticide ingestion is endemic, and constitutes the most common cause of death by poisoning. The toxicity of available poisons and the paucity of medical facilities in the developing world mean that the mortality rate for self-poisoning is high at 10%-20%, compared with 0.5%-1% in most industrialized countries (3). Clinico-Epidemiological study of poisoning in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh
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تاریخ انتشار 2017