We reviewed retrospectively 230 patients who came to emergency room of Kang Nam St. Mary's Hospital and Uijongbu St. Mary's Hospital between 1. January and 31. December 1994.
We classified them according to their age, sex, a sort of drug, the cause of poisoning, prehospital care, time-lapse to arrive at hospital after poisoning, psychiatric problem, the status of patients.
@ES We conciued as follows:
@EN 1. The male to female ratio was totally 1 : 1.98. 1 : 1.24 in a urban area, 1 : 2.43 in a rural area.
2. On age of the patients in this study, the peake incidence was between 20 and 39(55.2%).
3. On seasonal prevalence, the poisoning was most common in summer and spring, in urban are(35.7%) and rural area(37.0%) respectively.
4. The common drug were as follow
Doxylamine, Organophosphate, Acetaminophen in urban area,
Paraquat, Organophospate, Doxylamine in rural area
5. The percentage of suicidal attempt were 81.8% and 87.7% in urban area and rural area respectively.
6. The poisoning patients had psychatric problem in 19.4% and 24.6%, in urban area and rural area respectively.
7. Before arrival to emergency room, 27.7% of patient was done prehospital care in rural area.
8. On arrival to emergency room, 95.1% and 73.8% of patients show stable vital sign in urban area and rural area respectively.
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