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KMID : 0378019660090010045
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New Medical Journal
1966 Volume.9 No. 1 p.45 ~ p.52
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Statistical Observations of Acute Drug Intoxications
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李大鎭/Lee, Dae Jin
金賢竹/金永春/金順澤/Kim, Hyun Chuk/Kim, Young Chun/Kim, Sun Taik
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Abstract
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An epidemiological observation was made of 1,812 cases of acute drug intoxication admitted into the emergency clinic of Seoul city central hospital, during the period from january, 1963 through december, 1964. The clinical records gathered from these patients were analysed in the light of finding some of basic factors related to the problem of drug intoxications such as incidence by age, sex, occupation, distribution per season, month, week and 24-hour period. Investigated herein were also the average hospital days, motives or reasons for suicidal attempts, kind and quantity of drugs etc.
The finding can be summarized in the following.
(1) The sex ratio of total cases (1,812) was 0.83. 45.6% of the total was male cases while the remainder females.
(2) The age group of 20-29 years was of the highest incidence comprising 56.5% of all cases. The age groups either above fifty or less than ten had the lowest incidence accounting for 3.64 and 0.05% respectively.
(3) The seasonal incidence showed high rates in spring and summer while low in autumn and winter seasons .Most cases occurred in weekends and less frequently in weekdays. The lowest incidence was found in mondays. The most cases were seen between 21:0004:00 hours while scarcely seen at daytimes.
(4) A check on occupation, youths and maidens in twenties such as students, labourers, merchants, workers in male and prostitutes, waitress, students in female took possession of almost one half of total cases.
(5) Most of suicidal attempts was the apply of family discord, pessimism, disappointed love followed by financial condition far from satisfactory without distinction of sex.
(6) Barbiturate was of the leading drug accounting for 46.4% and next in the order of alcohol, quinine of all kinds of drugs. The drug quantity in the range of 2125 tablets leaded the amount group in comparison with that of the others in barbiturate poisonings.
(7) Observing the hospital days in relation to the condition on discharge, around 80% of total cases came under the recovery cases within 12 hour period while 92% in fatal cases.
No significant finding could be found out both hospital days and distribution of age group. (8) The case fatality rate of total cases was 1.3% while 98.7% in the case of recovery. It was also noticed that no differences of rate could be caught of on both sexes.
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