TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Profile of hospital admissions following acute poisoning from a major teaching hospital in North India
JO  - Tropical doctor
A1  - Raizada, Alpana
A1  - Kalra, Om Prakash
A1  - Khaira, Ambar
A1  - Yadav, Anil
SP  - 70
EP  - 73
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0049-4755
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/td.2011.110398
ID  - ref1
ER  -