TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - An analysis of 682 adult poisonings in Central Anatolia of Turkey
JO  - Veterinary and human toxicology
A1  - Kekec, Zeynep
A1  - Gunay, Nurullah
A1  - Sozuer, Erdogan Mutevelli
A1  - Guven, Muhammet
A1  - Sungur, Murat
SP  - 335
EP  - 336
VL  - 46
IS  - 6
N2  - We defined patient demographics, type of the poisoning, distribution according to month, route and reason for exposure, mortality causes and rates from 682 poisonings admitted to University Hospital in Kayseri, Turkey to evaluate whether they follow the pattern of other countries. Poisoning were drugs (54.5%), inhalational poisonings including carbon monoxide (13.7%), food (12.4%), alcohol (7%), pesticides (5.4%) and corrosives (2.1%). In drug ingestions, psychoactive drugs most common; psychoactive, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory drugs were most frequent agents in multiple drug poisonings. Drugs were the most used poison while pesticides, mushrooms, methanol and carbon monoxide caused more deaths. The mortality rate was 2%.
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SN  - 0145-6296
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -