@article{ref1,
title="Self-poisoning treated in an ICU: drug pattern, acute mortality and short-term survival",
journal="Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica",
year="1986",
author="Strøm, J. and Thisted, B. and Krantz, T. and Bredgaard Sørensen, Mogens",
volume="30",
number="2",
pages="148-153",
abstract="A total of 1558 admissions to an ICU over 5 years because of severe self-poisoning with drugs provides the basis for this study. Three drugs accounted for 60% of the admissions: overdose with barbiturates in 28%, with tricyclic antidepressants in 19% and with propoxyphene in 14%. The annual incidence of poisonings with barbiturates and tricyclic antidepressants was the same during the period, whereas the incidence of propoxyphene intoxication increased by 80%. Intensive supportive care was the main principle of treatment. All patients were artificially ventilated. The mortality rate was 6.1%, salicylate, propoxyphene and strong analgesics having the highest mortalities (11%, 9% and 9%, respectively). A mortality rate of 3% was found following overdose with tricyclic antidepressants. By 36 months after the overdose, 235 patients (18%) had died. The expected number of deaths was 39 (3%). The suicide rate in the follow-up period was 10%, in the majority (75%) of whom death was caused by a new episode of self-poisoning.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-5172",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}