TY - JOUR
PY - 2012//
TI - The analysis of 138 severe poisoning patients in emergency intensive care unit
JO - Zhonghua ji zhen yi xue za zhi
A1 - Xu, Shengyong
A1 - Yu, Xuezhong
A1 - Li, Yi
A1 - Wang, Zhong
A1 - Guo, Shubin
A1 - Zhu, Huadong
SP - 728
EP - 731
VL -
IS - 12
N2 - OBJECTIVE To investigate the epidemiology and features of severe poisoning.
METHODS A retrospective analysis of patients with severe poisoning admitted into the emergency intensive care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital from February 2008 to March 2010 was made.
RESULTS A total of 138 patients consisting of 45 males and 93 females were enrolled.The average age was 39.2 years.Committed suicide with toxic agents was the major cause of poisoning (76.8% ),followed by alcoholism (8.7% ) and misuse of medicine (5.8%).Of them,96.4% patients were poisoned by swallowing poison agents,and 45.7% patients were treated with gastric lavage and 15.2% of patients with hemofiltration.Mortality was 3.62%.
CONCLUSIONS Our study presents the current status of acute severe poisoning in the large general hospital.
Language: zh
LA - zh SN - 1671-0282 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-0282.2012.07.013 ID - ref1 ER -