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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2010, Cilt 15, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 184-187
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A Retrospective Analysis of Intoxication Cases in Intensive Care Unit of Elazığ Education and Research Hospital
İsmail DEMİREL
Elazığ Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon, ELAZIĞ, Türkiye

Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate intoxication cases which were followed-up in intensive care unit between 2008 – 2010 retrospectively.

Materials and Methods: In this study, poisoned patients admitted to the reanimation unit were investigated retrospectively in last two years.

Results: 325 female (71.1 %) and 132 male (28.9 %) patients were investigated (457 patient totally). Rate of male : female was 2.5 : 1. 72 patients (15.75 %) were under psychiatric treatment. The drugs that most frequently taken were antidepressant and mostly was trisiclic antidepressant (57 patient, 52.3 %). 128 patients (28.6 %) had taken more than one drug and different drugs. 12 patients (2.6 %) were intubated endotracheally for respiratory failure. Only one patient (0.21 %) has died after intoxication.

Conclusion: We decided that young patients and females compose the high risky group for acute intoxication and drug intoxication was the most common type of poisoning by this study.


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