OBJECTIVE To determine the effects over one year of contacting patients by telephone one month or three months after being discharged from an emergency department for deliberate self poisoning compared with usual treatment. DESIGN Multicentre, randomised controlled trial. SETTING 13 emergency departments in the north of France. PARTICIPANTS 605 people discharged from an emergency departme...

OBJECTIVE Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for one-third of suicides worldwide, but few studies have investigated the national epidemiology of pesticide suicide in countries where it is a commonly used method. We investigated trends in pesticide suicide, and factors associated with such trends, in Taiwan, a rapidly developing East Asian country. METHODS We conducted an ecological study using...

OBJECTIVE To describe suicide mortality trend and sociodemographic patterns identifying gender and socioeconomic differences. METHODS The trend of crude rates of suicide mortality by sex in the city of Campinas, Brazil, for the period 1976-2001 was assessed. Data from the Mortality Registry were used for sociodemographic analyses in the period 1996-2001. An ecological approach was used to exa...

Background: Acetaminophen is widely used as an analgesic and antipyretic drug and it is a frequent cause of acute drug poisoning.This study was carried out to investigate the demographic information and clinical and laboratory findings in acetaminophen poisoning patients referred to “17 Shahrivar” and “Razi” educational hospitals, Rasht. Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1...

NSAIDs are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, thus, they will provide analgesic,antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antiplatelet effects. Severe poisoning and death because of acuteintoxication can occur by ingestions of more than 400 mg/kg. This cross-sectional retrospectivestudy was carried out in on all patients referred to Loghman Hakim Hospital from 2011 to 2016.Grou...

BACKGROUND Suicide by self-poisoning is an important cause of death worldwide. A substantial proportion of those with a fatal outcome may come into contact with medical services before they die. AIM To estimate the proportion of self-poisoning suicides who reached hospital alive; to compare those who reached hospital alive with those who did not; to describe in detail the clinical characteris...

background: lidocaine is a local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic agent. there are reports on accidental and intentional cases of poisoning following injection of lidocaine while rare are the fatal cases realized after oral ingestion of lidocaine. suicidal poisoning with lidocaine pharmaceutical formulations is rare since no pharmaceutical dosage forms for oral use are available except gels and sp...

BACKGROUND Most attempted suicides have a low lethality, but hanging, drowning, and jumping from a great height have a high risk of completed suicide. The aim of this study was to assess the sociodemographic profiles of patients who attempted suicide using high lethality methods relative to all other methods of attempted suicide. METHODS We retrospectively investigated all attempted suicides ...

abstract background: aluminum phosphide as a fumigant is extensively used for wheat preservation from rodents and bugs especially in silos worldwide. there is increasing number of acute intoxication with this potentially lethal compound because of its easy availability. we have tried to locate predictors of poor prognosis in patients with aluminum phosphide intoxication in order to find patient...