background: acute drug poisoning remains an important public health problem and represents the second most frequent accidental disease in children. in this study, we identified epidemiological and clinical features of children admitted for acute drug poisoning and related factors associated with suicidal poisoning. methods: we conducted a retrospective study in the department of pediatrics, the...

Background: Acute drug poisoning remains an important public health problem and represents the second most frequent accidental disease in children. In this study, we identified epidemiological and clinical features of children admitted for acute drug poisoning and related factors associated with suicidal poisoning. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in the Department of Pediatrics, ...

objective: acetaminophen is an over-the-counter drug in iran. intentional and accidental poisoning with this drug is one of the most frequent causes of admission to our center. we studied the outcome of poisoning with this drug in our hospital. methods: over a two-year period from january 2005 to january 2007, 85 patients who were admitted to sina hospital for acute acetaminophen poisoning, wer...

expense and have acceptably low revenue implications. Disturbances of cardiac rhythm are common in general practice,68 and Shaper was able to show electrocardiographic evidence of ischaemic heart disease in 15% of a large sample of men aged 40-59.9 Perhaps most tellingly, home care of patients with acute myocardial infarction cannot be contemplated without establishing the diagnosis. More recen...

THE clinical state of patients with accidental hypothermia may closely resemble that of severely hypothyroid patients. Moreover laboratory investigations fail to differentiate the two states with certainty. Six cases of hypothermia are described in this paper; the serum carotene and cholesterol levels have been estimated in the hope of establishing a precise diagnosis, and their values and that...