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.

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LA - zh SN - 1671-0282 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-0282.2012.07.013 ID - ref1 ER -