Abstract: Introduction: Poisoning is an important public health issue globally. There are very few poison control centers in Pakistan with a very limited capacity to deal with poisoning emergencies. The aim of this study was to identify non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working for poison control and prevention in Pakistan and to assess their capacity an...

To make an accurate diagnosis of poisoning and determine the severity quickly without losing time are critical for managing patient's medical treatment predicting prognosis. This study aimed to investigate PSS Glasgow Coma Scale Score (GCS) effectiveness in outcomes acute pediatric poisoning. We retrospectively reviewed data intoxicated patients aged under 18 years who were admitted emergency s...

background: poisoning is considered an important public health issue. considering the high prevalence of poisonings and the diversity of their ensuing symptoms, this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of the clinical symptoms of poisoning in children admitted to shahid madani and ta'min ejtema'i hospitals of khorramabad in 2011. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the dat...

OBJECTIVE Acute accidental poisoning in children is still an important public health problem. The epidemiological investigation specific for each country is necessary to determine the extent and characteristics of the problem. The aim of our study was to elucidate the current pattern of acute poisoning among children. METHODS The present retrospective study describes the epidemiology of acute...

Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are among the commonest causes of drug poisoning seen in accident and emergency departments. This review discusses the pharmacokinetics, clinical presentation and treatment of tricyclic overdose.

Social factors may affect the available sources of toxic substances and causes of poisoning; and these factors may change over time. Additionally, understanding the characteristics of patients with acute toxic poisoning is important for treating such patients. Therefore, this study investigated the characteristics of patients with toxic poisoning. Patients visiting one of 3 hospitals in 2003 an...

Background. Psychiatric consultation is necessary for all patients with intentional poisoning and its reliability depends on the proper function of patients' memory performance. This study aimed to determine the possible memory impairment following acute TCAs' poisoning. Materials and Methods. In this cross-sectional study, patients with acute TCAs poisoning were allocated to two groups of seve...

Address for Correspondence: Selçuk Öztürk, Department of Cardiology, Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey E-mail: [email protected] ©Copyright 2016 by Emergency Physicians Association of Turkey Available online at www.jemcr.org Introduction Carbon monoxide (CO) is known to be an inodorous, colorless, and non-irritating gas. It is commonly known as the silent killer. Th...

Table of contents 1. Key findings 2. Summary 3. Introduction 4. Methodological changes 5. Policy context 6. Uses made of this data 7. Number of deaths from drug poisoning 8. Number of drug-related deaths by underlying cause 9. Number of deaths related to drug misuse 10. Mortality rates for all drug related poisonings and drug misuse 11. Age-specific mortality rates for deaths related to drug mi...

BACKGROUND Fall injuries are stressful and painful and they have a range of serious consequences for older people. While there is some clinical evidence of unintentional poisoning by medication following a severe fall injuries, population-based studies on that association are lacking. This is investigated in the current study, in which attention is also paid to different clinical conditions of ...