Citation

Jenner B. Przegl. Lek. 2005; 62(6): 602-607.

Vernacular Title

Trendy w zatruciach etanolem w okresie: grudzien 2001-sierpien 2004, w materiale

Affiliation

Zalład Toksykologii Analitycznej i Terapii Monitorowanej, Katedry Toksykologii Klinicznej i Srodowiskowej CM UJ, Krakowie. jennerb@poczta.fm

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Przeglad Lekarski)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16225134

Abstract

In recent years the commonest kind of poisonings observed in the Department of Clinical Toxicology in Kraków has been the poisonings with ethanol. Since this substance is so popular a detailed analysis of trends of poisonings with ethanol has been undertaken. The analysis has been based on the database of toxicological laboratory, the data collected in the period December 2001 - August 2004 were analyzed. It has been shown in this paper that the number of poisoned males is decreasing at the rate of 0.029% per day. Days such as Friday, Sunday, Saturday and the New Year's Eve are days of high number of ethanol-poisoned patients. At the beginning of the studied period a nonlinear increase of average age of patients was observed. This trend reached its plateau and maximum in winter 2002 and spring 2003 and since this time a decreasing non-linear trend has been observed. The average concentration of ethanol in the blood of patients is increasing at the rate 0.00002 g/L per day. The average concentration varies between gender and age groups. The group with the highest concentration is the group of about 50-years-old males. In the middle of the studied period the average concentration of ethanol in the blood of patients of this group was about 2.71 g/L. The concentration depends also on the day of the week. Patients investigated on days from Tuesday till Saturday show a higher concentration than those treated on Sundays and Mondays.

Language: pl