BACKGROUND Poisoning is a common pediatric emergency among children and adolescents in the Emergency Department of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences hospital. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was comparing the characteristics and variations of pediatric poisoning between two retrospective studies (1998 and 2008). We hypothesized that the epidemiology of pediatric patients admitted for po...

background:the pattern of poisoning has a regional variability. this study was carried out to describe the epidemiological profile of acute poisoning in northeastern bangladesh and to evaluate the mortality. methods:in this retrospective cross-sectional study, medical records of poisoned patients treated at department of medicine of sylhet m.a.g. osmani medical college hospital, sylhet, banglad...

A woman with DE after CO poisoning was longitudinally evaluated by DTI, performed during the following periods: at the phase of acute CO poisoning, the lucid interval, neurologic deterioration due to DE, and neurologic recovery. The present case revealed the long-term course of DTI parameters after CO poisoning and the usefulness of DTI for quantifying neurologic damage after CO poisoning.

The aim of this study was to analyse the frequency of poisoning with psychoactive drugs (benzodiazepines, antidepressants and neuroleptics) over the last 15 years in Croatia. The analysis was based on poisoning incidents reported over the phone (hot line) to the Zagreb Poison Control Center and included two periods: 1985-1991 (period I) and 1992-1999 (period II). The data were analysed separate...

October 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 10 | e449 Because of contact with patients, physicians readily appreciate that large-scale social forces—racism, gender inequality, poverty, political violence and war, and sometimes the very policies that address them—often determine who falls ill and who has access to care. For practitioners of public health, the social determinants of disease are even harder t...

background and objectives: food poisoning has been always a major concern in health system of every community and cream-filled products are one of the most widespread food poisoning causes in humans. in present study, we examined the preservative effect of the cinnamon oil in cream-filled cakes. methods: antimicrobial activity of cinnamomum verum j. presl (cinnamon) bark essential oil was examin...

There is low concentration (0.05% to 0.5%) of CH4 leakage in marine natural gas engine exhaust. It difficult capture and utilize because its stable chemical structure high ignition temperature. Catalytic oxidation the main method remove from tail gas. The noble metal palladium (Pd) best catalytic material for complete CH4. In this paper, research progress Pd-based catalysts reviewed their low-t...

Background: The easy availability and lack of legal strictures have made organophosphorus compound poisoning the deadly bane for the people of the lower socioeconomic strata, i.e., farmers and laborers. This study was conducted to predict the need for ventilator support in organophosphate poisoning and to identify the factors which help in predicting the need for ventilatory support in organoph...

AIMS To examine whether the changes in coding practice could reduce alcohol poisoning mortality rates in Estonia. METHODS Individual death records in 1983-2009 (age at death 25-64) were used to calculate the 3-year moving averages of age-standardized mortality rates. From 2000 onwards, there was a sharp increase in mortality from mental disorders due to alcohol, and at the same time a remarka...