TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Trends in ethanol-poisonings in the period December 2001 - August 2004, in the material of toxicological laboratory
JO  - Przeglad Lekarski
A1  - Jenner, Bartosz
SP  - 602
EP  - 607
VL  - 62
IS  - 6
N2  - In recent years the commonest kind of poisonings observed in the Department of Clinical Toxicology in Kraków has been the poisonings with ethanol. Since this substance is so popular a detailed analysis of trends of poisonings with ethanol has been undertaken. The analysis has been based on the database of toxicological laboratory, the data collected in the period December 2001 - August 2004 were analyzed. It has been shown in this paper that the number of poisoned males is decreasing at the rate of 0.029% per day. Days such as Friday, Sunday, Saturday and the New Year's Eve are days of high number of ethanol-poisoned patients. At the beginning of the studied period a nonlinear increase of average age of patients was observed. This trend reached its plateau and maximum in winter 2002 and spring 2003 and since this time a decreasing non-linear trend has been observed. The average concentration of ethanol in the blood of patients is increasing at the rate 0.00002 g/L per day. The average concentration varies between gender and age groups. The group with the highest concentration is the group of about 50-years-old males. In the middle of the studied period the average concentration of ethanol in the blood of patients of this group was about 2.71 g/L. The concentration depends also on the day of the week. Patients investigated on days from Tuesday till Saturday show a higher concentration than those treated on Sundays and Mondays.<p /> <p>Language: pl</p>
LA  - pl
SN  - 0033-2240
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -