Citation

Sancewicz-Pach K, Kamenczak A, Klag E, Kłys M. Przegl. Lek. 1999; 56(6): 409-414.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Polish-American Children Hospital, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Przeglad Lekarski)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10465990

Abstract

The pattern of adolescent and adult poisonings in Krakow is presented on the basis of the data collected by the Poison Information Centre of the Department of Clinical Toxicology Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in 1997. This analysis includes 3472 people treated at the Department of Clinical Toxicology and 118 poisoned people who were not given any treatment and died at the scene of the accident. The group of hospitalised persons consisted of 2359 (67.9%) men and 1113 (32.1%) women, and the group of people who died at the scene of the accident consisted of 97 (82.2%) men and of 21 (17.8%) women. The overall coefficient of poisonings in 1997 was 46.9; for men--67.8 and 28.3 for women. Ethanol (39.7%) followed by drugs (20.2%), drugs + ethanol (6.7%), carbon monoxide (6.2%) and drugs of abuse (4.4%) were the most common cause of acute poisonings. The mortality rate of the cases treated was low (0.43%), but while including those people who were not given any treatment and died at the scene of the accident, mostly due to ethanol, carbon monoxide, and drugs poisoning the fatality index rose up to 3.7%.

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