Rukhsana Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Omer Sultan, Muhammad Arsalan Jamil, Rida Hanif, Muhammad Inam Khan, Sham Kumar.
Demography and Outcome of Acute Adult Poisoning Patients Admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital; A One Year Analysis.
Ann Jinnah Sindh Med Uni Jan ;2(1):21-4.

Objective: To study the spectrum of acute adult poisoning cases admitted in National Poison Control Centre (NPCC) to determine agents used in poisoning along with demographics and outcome. Methodology: This Non-interventional (descriptive) study was conducted in National Poison Control Centre (NPCC) Medical Unit-I, Ward-5, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, over a period of one year (2013). This study includes case records of 2698patients that were admitted in NPCC with acute poisoning over a period of calendar year 2013. Age, gender, marital status, demographic characteristics, agents of poisoning and outcome were analyzed. Results: A total of 2698 cases of acute were reviewed in this study. There were 1444(53.5%) males,39.1% were married and 52.7% were belonged to age group 12-22 years.. Majority of cases (31.8%) were from District Korangi. In 850(31.5%) cases organophosphate was responsible for acute poisoning and 62(2.3%) cases were of alcohol poisoning out of which 11(17.7%) expired. Conclusion: Acute adult poisoning is very common in young adults especially males and particularly singles. Organophosphate was the most common among all the agents employed in poisoning and alcohol carries highest mortality. District Korangi was found to be dominant in poisoning. 0Key words: Poisoning, organophosphates, alcohol, mortality, Karachi, Pakistan.

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