Study of Demographic Pattern of Poisoning in Patients Presenting to Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Centre, SIMS, Hapur

Gurdeep Singh ,Sumit Tellewar ,Vishwajeet Singh ,Barakha Gupta ,Abhishek Sharma

doi:10.37506/ijfmt.v14i1.4

Abstract

Poisoning is a common medical emergency and one of the important cause of mortality and morbidity in developing countries like India due to easy availability of poisonous substances and its low cost. This study was carried out on poisoning cases reported to casualty of Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, UP in eighteen-months duration from 1st January 2017 to 30th June 2018. In this study, incidence was more among men (58.70%) compared to women (41.30%) and maximum cases were of age group 21 – 30 years (48.91%). More cases from rural area (89.13%) were reported and highest number of poisoning cases were admitted in the month of June 2018 (10.87%) followed by May 2017 (8.70%). Maximum cases (60.87 %) reported to casualty between 8am to 4pm. Aluminium phosphide poisoning (44.26%) constituted the highest number of cases and in maximum cases manner of poisoning was of suicidal in nature (59.78%). Majority of cases 53.26% were discharged after improvement and 3.26% cases died.

Highlights

The word poison has been evolved from Latin word potion i.e. to drink for health
National Poisons Information centre (NPIC), New Delhi, received a total of 2719 poison calls over a period of 3 years (April 1999-March 2002)
Total 92 patients of poisoning were reported to the department of emergency during the study period

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Introduction

The word poison has been evolved from Latin word potion i.e. to drink for health. Poison is defined as any substance (solid, liquid or gaseous) which if introduced in the living body or brought into contact with any part thereof will produce ill-health or death by its constitutional or local effects or both. [1]National Poisons Information centre (NPIC), New Delhi, received a total of 2719 poison calls over a period of 3 years (April 1999-March 2002). The word poison has been evolved from Latin word potion i.e. to drink for health. Poison is defined as any substance (solid, liquid or gaseous) which if introduced in the living body or brought into contact with any part thereof will produce ill-health or death by its constitutional or local effects or both. The most common mode of poisoning was suicidal (53%), followed by accidental (47%). According to WHO data, in 2012 an estimated 1,93,460 people died worldwide from unintentional poisoning. Of these deaths, 84% occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Unintentional poisoning caused the loss of over 10.7 million years of healthy life. Unintentional poisoning caused the loss of over 10.7 million years of healthy life. [3]

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