CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POISONING CASES ADMITTED TO THE INDIAN INSTITUTE'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Abstract

Background: Acute poisoning is one of the most serious medical situations that arises. There is, however, a dearth of
information on this topic in the literature.
Aim: The current study's objective was to evaluate the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of poisoning patients
that were brought to an Indian institution's emergency room.
Methods: The poisoning cases that were admitted to the Institute within the specified study period were evaluated in this
study. The research evaluated 1096 poisoning patients in all. Age, gender, employment, kind of poisoning, presentation
time, GCS scores, and results were all thoroughly evaluated for each participant. Young male research participants who
worked as farmers made up the majority of the poisoning incidents. Nearly 70% of both purposeful and accidental
instances survived with no death, the GCS was low, and more than half of the participants had presentation times longer
than two hours. The most frequently reported poisoning agents in both purposeful and unintentional poisoning instances
were sedatives and organophosphorus chemicals.
Conclusion: The current study comes to the conclusion that it gives emergency physicians clinical and epidemiological
information about how poisoning patients present and what kind of poison they are experiencing when they visit the
emergency room in the Indian healthcare system.