Abstract

Objective. This study analyzed the influencing factors of acute medication poisoning in adults in the emergency department of our hospital from January 2016 to December 2019 and observed the curative effect of optimizing emergency procedures on adult acute medication poisoning. Our results showed that, among all acute drug poisoning patients, the most common poisoning drug was sleeping pills (24.22%), followed by painkillers (20.31%) and antipsychotics (16.41%). Education level, drug category, drug source, drug dosage, unknown drug composition, and medication side effect were all influencing factors of acute drug poisoning. High school education level or below, self-purchasing medicine, medication overdose, unknown drug composition, and medication side effect were the risk factors of acute medication poisoning. In addition, after the nursing management of optimizing emergency procedures for this type of patients, the rescue time, observation time, and hospital stay of the patients had been shortened, the incidence of complications was low, the rescue success rate was high, and the clinical application effect was good.

Highlights

  • Introduction1. Introduction e causes of acute drug poisoning in adults are complex, which are often related to the lack of awareness of personal medication safety and the toxic effects of the drug itself [1]

  • In view of the fact that the rescue success rate of poisoned patients is affected by the method of poisoning, the type of poisoning drugs, and the effect of emergency rescue. erefore, grasping the clinical characteristics of acute poisoning events and establishing a timely and effective acute poisoning rescue process are necessary to shorten the rescue time and improve the treatment effect

  • Studies [10,11,12] show that the primary cause of acute drug poisoning is suicide and the most common poisoning drug is sleeping pills, which is consistent with the results of this study

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Introduction

1. Introduction e causes of acute drug poisoning in adults are complex, which are often related to the lack of awareness of personal medication safety and the toxic effects of the drug itself [1]. Introduction e causes of acute drug poisoning in adults are complex, which are often related to the lack of awareness of personal medication safety and the toxic effects of the drug itself [1] It refers to a drug poisoning event in which toxic drugs enter the human body through the respiratory tract, skin, mucous membrane, or digestive tract in a short time, causing damage to the patient’s body and occurrence of multiple organ dysfunction, which has the characteristics of rapid onset, severe illness, and high mortality [2, 3].

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