Open AccessAn Analysis of 1344 Consecutive Acute Intoxication Cases Admitted to an Academic Emergency Medicine Department in Turkey
Author(s) -
Melis Efeoğlu Saçak,
Haldun Akoğlu,
Özge Onur,
Arzu Denizbaşı Altınok
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
i̇stanbul kuzey klinikleri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-4902
DOI - 10.14744/nci.2020.98957
Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , emergency medicine , medical emergency , psychiatry
One of the major causes of emergency department (ED) visits is acute poisoning. Acute intoxications occur soon after either single or multiple exposures to toxic substances, and they started to be a more serious problem in developing countries. The objective of this study was to investigate the local patterns of acute intoxications, as well as clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of patients with acute poisoning, admitted to our hospital's ED.