@article{ref1,
title="Cases of acute poisoning admitted to Clinical Hospital Merkur in Zagreb in 1999",
journal="Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju",
year="2001",
author="Prkacin, I. and Vujanić, Svetlana T. and Dabo, N. and Palci, I and Naumovski-Mihali?, S",
volume="52",
number="3",
pages="315-321",
abstract="This paper describes 170 cases of acute poisoning in 60 men and 110 women admitted to emergency room from January through November 1999. Ninety-eight percent of acute poisonings were self-inflicted, and 90% occurred at home. Drugs were used in 134 (79%) suicide attempts. Eighty-one acute poisonings were caused by benzodiazepines (48%) and 19 by antidepressants (11%). Alcohol intoxication, alone or combined with the intake of psychoactive drug (28 cases, 16%) predominated in men. Cocaine was the most common narcotic drug, taken by 31 patients (16%). Other acute poisonings involved ecstasy (4 cases), CO (6 cases), and HCl inhalation (2 cases). Previous suicide attempts due to depression were found in 68 patients (40%). Fifty patients (29%) were comatose on admission, 24 were transferred to intensive care, and 3 died. Data such as these can be very useful for handling self-inflicted acute poisonings and for planning long-term health care activities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-1254",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}