CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POISONING CASES BROUGHT TO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Abstract

Background: Acute poisoning is one of the most serious medical situations that Indian healthcare facilities' emergency rooms deal with. There is, however, a dearth of information on this topic in the literature. Aim: to evaluate the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of poisoning patients brought to the Indian Institute's emergency room.  Methods: the poisoning cases that were admitted to the Institute during the specified research time frame. 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.  Results: The research's findings indicated that young men who worked as farmers made up the bulk of the study participants with poisoning episodes. 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.