A retrospective analysis of acute poisoning cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital in South India

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dc.contributor.authorAnandabaskar, Nishanthien_US
dc.contributor.authorMurugan, Revedaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSelvaraj, Nityaen_US
dc.contributor.authorJayaraman, Mohanasundaramen_US
dc.contributor.authorRajamohammad, Meher Alien_US
dc.contributor.authorKagne, Rajendrakumar Nivaratiraoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-23T07:58:25Z
dc.date.available2020-04-23T07:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.description.abstractBackground: Acute poisoning is a medical emergency and a global public health problem. The poisoning pattern varies across countries and even between different regions within a country. The aim of this was to explore the demographic, etiological, and clinical characteristics of acute poisoning cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry, South India.Methods: This was a retrospective hospital record based study of acute poisoning cases admitted to our hospital during the period from January 2015 to December 2017. The patients’ demographic, etiological and clinical characteristics were analyzed.Results: Of the total of 275 cases of acute poisoning, majority of them were in the age group of 21- 30 years (32%) and were females (58.5%). Most of the cases were suicidal in nature (75.3%). Majority of the patients consumed a single poisonous agent (92.7%) and the route of poisoning was oral in all of them. Majority of the patients (56.7%) reached the hospital within 2 hours of exposure to the poison with median duration of hospital stay of 2 days, and mortality of 2.9%. Majority of the suicidal poisonings were associated with abuse of insecticides (39.4%), rodenticides (19.7%) and plant seeds (14.4%); whereas the accidental poisonings were mostly due to household agents (79.1%).Conclusions: Our study shows that the majority of the poisoning cases occurred with a single poisonous agent consumed orally, for suicidal purposes in young age group and women. Pesticides and plant seeds were commonly abused for committing suicides and household agents dominated the list of causes for accidental poisoning.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Pharmacology, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAnandabaskar Nishanthi, Murugan Reveda, Selvaraj Nitya, Jayaraman Mohanasundaram, Rajamohammad Meher Ali, Kagne Rajendrakumar Nivaratirao. A retrospective analysis of acute poisoning cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital in South India. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. 2019 Oct; 8(10): 2271-2277en_US
dc.identifier.issn2319-2003
dc.identifier.issn2279-0780
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/200372
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedip Academyen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber10en_US
dc.relation.volume8en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20194270en_US
dc.subjectAcute poisoningen_US
dc.subjectEmergencyen_US
dc.subjectPesticidesen_US
dc.subjectSuicideen_US
dc.titleA retrospective analysis of acute poisoning cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital in South Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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