Kalsiyum kanal blokerleri toplumda çok yaygın olarak kullanılan bir kardiyovasküler ilaç gurubudur. Sık reçete edilmesi, kolay ulaşılabilir olması nedeniyle özkıyım amacıyla yüksek doz alımlarına acil servislerde sıklıkla rastlanılmaktadır. Aşırı alımları dirençli şok, hayatı tehdit eden bradidisritmi, kardiyojenik çoklu organ yetmezliği ölüme sebebiyet verebilir. Erken tanı ve erken tedavi hay...

Abstract: Poisonings by psychotropic drugs in various manners pose a serious public health, forensic and clinical medicine problem especially for the medical staff of toxicology, intensive care and anesthesiology wards. Data on hospital admissions secondary to poisonings by chosen psychotropic drugs (T43 according to ICD-10) in the years 2006-2012, made available due to courtesy of the public h...

Pesticide poisoning is a significant burden on health care systems in many low-income countries. This study evaluates cases of registered pesticide poisonings treated in selected rural (N = 101) and urban (N = 212) health facilities in Uganda from January 2010 to August 2016. In the urban setting, pesticides were the most prevalent single poison responsible for intoxications (N = 212 [28.8%]). ...

BACKGROUND Acute poisonings are common and are treated at different levels of the health care system. Since most fatal poisonings occur outside hospital, these must be included when studying characteristics of such deaths. The pattern of toxic agents differs between fatal and non-fatal poisonings. By including all poisoning episodes, cause-fatality rates can be calculated. METHODS Fatal and n...

I and accidental poisonings and substance abuse can result in the need for critical care support. In many cases, only supportive care is necessary until the effects of the toxin diminish. However, some poisonings require specific antidotes or interventions to decrease morbidity and mortality. General management principles of poisonings and substance abuse that are pertinent to intensive care ma...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Nontherapeutic medication ingestions continue to be a major pediatric health problem, with recent increases in ingestions despite a number of public health interventions. It is unknown how changes in adult prescription drug use relate to pediatric medication poisonings. The objective of the study was to measure the association between changing adult prescription drug p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the etiologic and demographic characteristics of acute adult poisoning cases and to obtain up-to-date information on acute poisonings. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate 1254 adults who presented with acute poisoning to the Emergency Department of our tertiary care university hospital in central Turkey from January 2007 to December 2009. The data ext...

BACKGROUND Injury is a significant cause of childhood death and can result in substantial long-term disability. Injuries are more common in children from socio-economically deprived families, contributing to health inequalities between the most and least affluent. However, little is known about how the relationship between injuries and deprivation has changed over time in the UK. METHODS We c...