Open AccessToxicological Profile of Poisoning Cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Author(s) -
Arathy Radhakrishnan,
Jesmi George,
S Amith.,
Mr. Naveen Kumar Panicker,
Binu Upendran
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
saudi journal of medical and pharmaceutical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-4929
pISSN - 2413-4910
DOI - 10.36348/sjmps.2022.v08i04.004
Subject(s) - medicine , accidental , observational study , accidental poisoning , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , tertiary care , poison control , injury prevention , pediatrics , surgery , physics , acoustics
Our objectives were to identify the most common type and class of poisons, management, lab parameters affected, presence of underlying psychiatric illness, average hospital stay and complications.Retrospective observational study was conducted including all patients who presented with poisoning from 2016 to 2020.From 210 patients reviewed, consisting of 125 females and 85 males, intentional poisoning accounted for 149 cases while accidental poisoning accounted for 61 cases.133 cases were due to drug, 44 cases due to household products, 21 due to insecticide while alcohol, plant and chemical accounted for 4 cases each. Paracetamol was the most commonly misused drug. Most of the patients were managed with supportive measures alone. Antidotes were used in 32 cases. 52 of the intentional and 4 of the accidental poisoning had underlying psychiatric illness. Anticonvulsant poisoning had highest average hospital stay.Only mild variations were observed in lab parameters.11 patients developed complications due to poisoning.