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Background   Acute poisoning is a common scenario in the emergency department of any general hospital globally, but its pattern may vary in different parts of the world and even may be a different regional variation in the same country.Objective   Our recent study aims to assess the demographic characteristics, psychological aspect, pattern, and treatment outcome in different acute poisoning.Method   The present cross-sectional study was conducted in the medicine department of Jashore Medical College and Hospital from 1 st  January to 30 th  June 2018, which recruited 487 eligible cases of admitted acute poisoning patients.Results   The study reveals that the total incidence of acute poisoning in Jashore, Bangladesh, is 17.1 per 100,000 populations over a 6-month period. The mean age of our study population was 27 ± 11 (SD) years with having significant female preponderance in acute poisoning (female: 253/52% and male: 234/48%;  p  = 0.002). Female subjects were significantly younger than male ( p  <0.001). Moreover, the total suicidal intension of acute poisoning in our study was 97.3%, whereas the female subjects were more committed to suicidal attempts ( p  = 0.027). Organophosphorus compounds (OPCs) were the significant leading agents (66.1%,  p  = 0.029) of acute poisoning, and even, it had been significantly used as suicidal intention of poisoning substance (65.1%,  p  <0.001) in our observation. Muslim (97.5%,  p  = 0.005), 10–29 year age group (68.0%,  p  = 0.002), rural (99.2%), unmarried (51.3%), middle class (50.1%), students (48.9%), and secondary educational background population (76.4%) were more victimized of acute poisoning. Among different factors, familial disharmony constituted of 56.1% cases of suicidal attempt in acute poisoning. Finally, we had observed that the death incidence by acute poisoning in Jashore, Bangladesh, was 1.9 per 100,000 population over a 6-month period.Conclusion   The recent study reveals that there is high incidence of acute poisoning in Jashore, Bangladesh, with a significant amount of death toll. Organophosphorus compound is the most common agent of deliberating self-poisoning in our study due to its easy availability in our agriculture-based community.

The Scenario of Acute Poisoning in Jashore, Bangladesh