Epidemiological Investigation of Poisoning Cases Assisted by Guilan Province 115 Emergency
Abstract:
Introduction
Poisoning is a major problem which threatens health throughout the world.Objective
Because of the presence of such cases in the statistics of the cases assisted by pre-hospitalization emergency services, the present paper aims to epidemiologically investigate intentional and unintentional poisoning cases assisted by Guilan Emergency Services during the period between 2012 -2013.Materials And Methods
The present study is a descriptive cross-sectional one analyzing patients status and the month of occurrence through providing and reviewing a checklist involving variables such as age, gender and the type of intentional or unintentional poisoning. Data are analyzed using SPSS 19 in significance level of 0.05.Results
According to the results, among the total number of 3789 poisoning cases in Guilan occurred from 2012 to 2013, 69.5% were males and 30.5% were females. Most cases occurred in the age range of 21- 30 years (37.3%). Most cases of intentional poisoning included abuse of pharmaceuticals and medicine, especially Benzodiazepines and most unintentional cases included addictive drug abuse. The highest occurrence rate belonged to June.Conclusion
The most prevalent type of intentional and unintentional poisoning cases is drug-induced poisoning. Hence, authorities are required to pay more and specific attention to the issue. Keywords:
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal Of Guilan University Of Medical Sciences, Volume:25 Issue: 97, 2016
Pages:
56 to 60
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