Citation

Neves P, Neuffer N, Yersin B. Rev. Med. Suisse 2011; 7(302): 1445-1449.

Vernacular Title

Intoxications alcooliques massives aux urgences: combien, qui, quoi et comment?

Affiliation

Etudiante en médecine UNIL, Lausanne. Patricia.Neves@unil.ch

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Medecine et Hygiene)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21838008

Abstract

Alcohol abuse causes numerous medical and social problems. In spite of the decrease of the global consumption of alcohol per capita in Switzerland during the last years, the cases of massive alcoholic poisoning seem increasing in emergency departments. Very few data is available at the moment on this phenomenon. The present article focuses on this problem within the framework of the emergency department of the CHUV. It aims at bringing to light on the sociodemographic and medical characteristics, as well as on the characteristics of the stay of these patients who are admitted with such a problem, to have a global vision of this phenomenon.

Language: fr