Demographic Characteristics of Patients Applied to The Emergency Service with Drug Intoxications

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 68 - 70, 05.12.2020

Fatma Çakmak

Abstract

Objectives: The term poisoning is quite old. Poisoning; It is the situation that stops vital functions where a substance enters the living organism through mouth, skin, respiration, circulation, and damages its function. Poisoning has been one of the important health problems throughout human history. The term "poisoning" was first used by the British in 1230. According to the first report of Turkish National Poison Control Center on the application by poisoning in Turkey is located medical drugs (69.74%). Poisoning caused by pesticides is in second place (8.34%) and poisoning with household chemicals is in third place (7.57%).
Matherials and Method: Patients who applied to Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital emergency service with drug intoxication between 07.04.2018 and 07.04.2020 were retrospectively screened and analyzed from the medical records.
Aim: It was aimed to examine the demographic characteristics of the patients who applied to Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital Emergency Service between 07.04.2018 and 07.04.2020 with drug intoxication in a period of two years.
Results: 96 patients admitted to the emergency departmant with drug intoxication beetween 07.04.2018 and 07.04.2020. Patients presenting with intoxication are 4.1% of all admitted patients. 79.3% of the patients presenting with intoxication are drug intoxication. The average age of these patients is 29,7 years old. 69 (71.8%) of the patients were female 67.7% of patients admitted to the emergency departmalet with drug intoxication are married.
Conclusion: Woman were intoxicated with a higher rate of drug intake than male. The lower socio-economic level of female in our geography may cause female to hold on to life less and want to end their lives. By increasing the socioeconomic status of female, the rate of suicide can be reduced. In our geography, as the marriage of female puts more psychological burden on themselves, drug intoxication may be more common among female who are married. Drug intoxication may be reduced in those who are married in male, perhaps because their lives are regulated. Since our study was conducted retrospectively, it is not certain what the purpose of poisoning was. Working prospectively in larger groups will provide us with more accurate and broader data.

Keywords

drug intoxications, demographic, poisoning

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