TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Cases of acute poisoning admitted to Clinical Hospital Merkur in Zagreb in 1999
JO  - Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
A1  - Prkacin, I.
A1  - Vujanić, Svetlana T.
A1  - Dabo, N.
A1  - Palci, I
A1  - Naumovski-Mihali?, S
SP  - 315
EP  - 321
VL  - 52
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0004-1254
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -