Citation

Özayar E, Deǧerli S, Gulec H, Şahin, Dereli N. Journal of Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine 2011; 2(3): 59-62.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011)

DOI

10.5152/dcbybd.2011.13

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

AIM: In this study, we aimed to analyse the epidemiological and demographic features, prognosis and length of stay of patients admitted to the hospital ICU with poisoning over a two-year period.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients accepted to the ICU with poisoning from 1 January, 2008-1 January, 2011 were evaluated according to their demographic characteristics, ethology, admission time to emergency service and length of stay in the ICU.

RESULTS: Seventy-six (70.4%) of 108 patients who were accepted to the ICU with poisoning were female and 32 (29.6%) were male. The mean age was 27.9 years. Eightyseven percent of all patients were drug overdoses as suicide attempts; 64.90% of these patients took multiple drugs and 35.10% took one kind of drug. The most frequent drug combination were antidepressants and NSAIDs. Four of the patients were exposed to carbon monoxide, five to mushrooms, three to insecticides, one to methanol and there was one case of honey intoxication. The mean admission time to the emergency department was 4.4 hours, while the mean time for ICU admission was 2.4 hours. The mean duration of stay in the ICU was 2.7 days. Antidotes were used in 100 patients, six patients were intubated and one patient died. The mortality rate was 0.92%.

CONCLUSION: Cases of poisoning admitted to the ICU with a drug overdose as a suicide attempt were mostly young women. The most common agents were NSAIDs and antidepressants. With this retrospective study, we determined the patient profile for intoxication cases in our ICU and also we have a chance of self-evaluation.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; female; male; Poisoning; prognosis; mortality; methanol; suicide attempt; drug overdose; intoxication; alcohol intoxication; polypharmacy; Antidepressant; article; major clinical study; antidepressant agent; retrospective study; hospital admission; length of stay; carbon monoxide; carbon monoxide intoxication; epidemiological data; intensive care unit; emergency ward; insecticide; nonsteroid antiinflammatory agent; demography; antidote; Intensive care; Drug overdose; food poisoning; drug exposure; intubation; mushroom poisoning; trend study; honey