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This study was aimed to analyze the acute poisoning cases in Kyung Hee University Medical Center ER. The pertinent data were collected from available patients charts, and this study was conducted from 7/89 to 6/91. From the total number of 37396 ER admissions, 702 were due to acute poisonings, occupying 1.9% of total ER patient population. All data were categorized by sex, age, poisoning substance, motive and poisoning route. After this analysis, following conclusions were drawn : first, most of acute poisoning cases were in adults, and 30.6% of these adult cases were in age group of 20~29 years. Secondly, most common motive was accident(53.5%), followed by suicidal attempt(26.5%) ad others(20.0%). Regarding the route of poisoning, ingestion was 57.9% and other common routes were CO inhalation and bites. Finally, the causal agents were medication(31.9%), CO gas(20.5%), bites(13.5%) and agricultural agents(5.9%). There are many acute poisonings by our own social and environmental factors.
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