Clinical observation was made on 405 cases of drug intoxication visited to WoKwang university hospital via emergency room during one year from January 1991 to December 1991.
@ES The results were sumarized as follows:
@EN 1. Annual incidence was 1.91%(405 of the 21247 patients).
2. Factors related to increased occurrence were male(53.83%), age of 3rd decade(26.67%), Monday (17.78%), and August(17.28%).
3. The motives of most intoxication(88.89%) were suicidal attempts.
4. The most common drug of intoxication was insecticides(36.54%), the remainders were S. T. H.(17.04%), herbicides(11.36%), puffer(5.43%), rodenticides(4.49%), etc.
5. The chief complaints on arrival to emergency room were nausea & vomiting(36.79%), mental change(15.56%),dizziness(13.33%), general weakness(4.49%), etc.
6. The abnormal vital signs on arrival to emergency room were tachycardia(18.52%), mental change (15.56%) hypertension(9.63%), etc.
7. The observed abnormal laboratory findings on admission(27 cases) were elevated ALP(15 cases), leukocytosis(12 cases), depressed T. Protein, depressed HCO3, hypocarbia etc, in order of frequency.
8. The complications of acute D-I were aspiration pneumonia(2.22%). G-I symtpom(1.23%; ileus, peptic ulcer, gastritis etc.) parkinsonism(0.74%), etc.
9. The outcomes of the patients were recovery(63.46%), against discharge(26.42%), hopeless discharge(8.15%), death(1.98%)
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