@article{ref1,
title="Profile of hospital admissions following acute poisoning from a major teaching hospital in North India",
journal="Tropical doctor",
year="2012",
author="Raizada, Alpana and Kalra, Om Prakash and Khaira, Ambar and Yadav, Anil",
volume="42",
number="2",
pages="70-73",
abstract="A retrospective analysis of 584 cases of acute poisoning admitted with a medical emergency to the Department of Medicine, GTB Hospital, Delhi, over a three-year period. The patients were analysed with respect to the age, sex, mode of poisoning, type of poison consumed and mortality. Of these, 42.63% were aged 20-30 years. Poisoning was used as a suicidal agent by 63.8% of the patients. The nature of the poison could not be ascertained in 15.92% of patients. Sedatives were involved in 13.36%. Aluminium phosphide poisoning was found in 11.82%. The overall mortality was estimated to be 13.18% with 53.2% being caused by the consumption of aluminium phosphide. There has been a change in the nature of poisons consumed and the number of cases of aluminium phosphide poisoning is declining. However, aluminium phosphide poisoning still remains a major threat as it carries a high mortality rate.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0049-4755",
doi="10.1258/td.2011.110398",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/td.2011.110398"
}