Citation

Dura H, Morar S, Boicean A. Rom. J. Leg. Med. 2016; 24(2): 131-134.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Romanian Legal Medicine Society)

DOI

10.4323/rjlm.2016.131

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The study aims at highlighting accidental and intentional acute diazinon poisoning regarding a series of 24 cases recorded between 2006 and 2015 in Sibiu County (Romania). All exposures have been by ingestion, of which in two thirds of cases it was accidental, the rest of them being suicides. A total of 8 cases had fatal outcomes, 7 of them passing away before any resuscitation manoeuvre could have been performed. In most cases (n=21) poisoning occurred in rural people having as main activity sheep breeding. Women and men were affected in almost equal proportions. The victims belonged to all age groups, including children. In 18 of these cases, the level of education was at most secondary school. The majority of cases (n=22) occurred during peak periods of pastoral activity. The last 5 years of the study period recorded an upward trend in the number of poisoning cases. The study demonstrates that those who practice traditional sheepherding represent a vulnerable population, given the relative isolation of such communities, the low educational level and the fact that toxic substances are routinely stored in homes (because the residential area overlaps with the occupational one). © 2016 Romanian Society of Legal Medicine.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; female; male; resuscitation; controlled study; retrospective study; groups by age; nonhuman; ingestion; fatality; high school; animal experiment; Accidental poisoning; Romania; Article; observational study; dimpylate; organophosphate poisoning; sheep; breeding; casuistry; Diazinon; Sheep breeders