Any sort of medical drug, insecticide or foods sometimes makes harmful situation whether it is beneficial or not. Nowadays, the treatment for drug intoxication started mostly in emergency deppartment. The initial treatmetn must start as soon as
possible. The prognosis is depend upon a kind of drug, exposure time and time of initial treatment. Authors conducted a review of acute poisoned patients seen from April 1983 to July 1992, who visited emergency department of Yong Dong Severance
Hospital.
@ES The results were as follows,
1. The patients of Drug intoxication account for 0.68% of total emergency deparment patients.
2. Male to female ratio was 1:1.9 and the age distribution revealed a high incidence in seond decade (35.7%).
3. From all the cases of drug intoxication and 67.2% was done on purpose.
4. The drug sued were sedatives, CO intoxication, pharmaceuticals, pesticide, in order.
5. Admission rate was 23.8% and mean hospital day 6.0 days.
6. ICU admission rate was 30.0% and mean staying time was 4.7 days.
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