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KMID : 0377619870520090549
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1987 Volume.52 No. 9 p.549 ~ p.556
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An Investigation on Acute Poisoning Hospitalizations
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Abstract
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To investigate the status of the acute poisoning, the medical records were reviewed for 290 acute poisoning cases, who had been admitted to the Yeungnam University Hospital via emergency room between January and December, 1986.
Among the total 290 cases, 109 (37.6%) were male and 181 (62.4%) were female. The most frequent age group was 20-29 years of age in the both sexes.
Out of 6 causative substances, CO gas was the most frequent cause of poisoning (42.4%), followed by sedatives and hypnotic (18.3%), pesticides and rodenticides (17.8%), others (16.9%), and unknown (6.6%).
The occurrence of acute poisoning was the highest in winter (33.9%) and the, lowest in summer (14.7%).
According to intent of poisoning, the suicidal poisoning (57%) was higher than the accidental poisoning (43%).
Among CO poisoning cases, 96.7% were poisoned accidentally, but 92.5% in sedatives and hypnotic, and 86.5% in pesticides and rodenticides were poisoned by suicidal pur-pose.
The case fatality rate of the accidental acute poisoning was 1.8%, and the suicidal 8.0%. The mean case fatality rate of acute poisoning was 4.5%.
Based on these findings, a nationwide survey should be carried out for more reliable data on acute poisoning.
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