Demographic features of acute drug poisoning admitted to Inonu University Hospital in Malatya, Turkey

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dc.authoridTurtay, Muhammet Gokhan/0000-0002-1728-8237
dc.authoridPamukcu, Esra/0000-0002-5778-9626
dc.authoridOguzturk, Hakan/0000-0002-9800-1428
dc.authoridCiftci, Osman/0000-0001-5755-3560
dc.authorwosidoguzturk, hakan/Q-6242-2019
dc.authorwosidTurtay, Muhammet Gokhan/ABG-7401-2020
dc.authorwosidPamukcu, Esra/E-6427-2015
dc.authorwosidOguzturk, Hakan/AAC-3915-2021
dc.contributor.authorOguzturk, Hakan
dc.contributor.authorTurtay, Muhammet Gokhan
dc.contributor.authorPamukcu, Esra
dc.contributor.authorCiftci, Osman
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-04T20:32:37Z
dc.date.available2024-08-04T20:32:37Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.departmentİnönü Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn this study, the patients appealed to Emergency Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Inonu, Malatya, Turkey because the acute drug poisoning in the period from 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2009 were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic features of the patients, the agent responsible for poisoning and hospitalization rates were assessed. In this aim, we evaluated 178 patients, ages ranged from 18 to 77.79 (44.4%) were men and 99 (55.6%) patients were women. The mean ages of male and female were found to be 32.2 +/- 12.2 and 31.3 +/- 12.0, respectively. 91(51.1%) patients were living in rural areas and 87 patients (48.9%) were living in urban centers. It was found that 156 (87.6%) of these patients had first poisoning whilst 19 (10.7%) patients experienced second poisoning event and 3 (1.7%) patients had third poisoning event. The type of the poisoning was ingestion of drugs for suicidal intent in 146 (82%) cases and accidental ingestion in 32 (18%) cases. Poisoning most commonly occurred as ingestion of multiple drugs. Seven patients (3.9%) were discharged from the emergency service (ED), while 132 patients (74.2%) were hospitalized in intensive care unit of anesthesiology and 39 patients (21.9%) in the department of internal medicine. Average duration of hospitalization of all patients was 3.46 +/- 2.22 days. Drugs poisoning occur most frequently as ingestion of multiple drugs in young individuals and female.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage2767en_US
dc.identifier.issn1992-2248
dc.identifier.issue18en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-78649426747en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage2761en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11616/95192
dc.identifier.volume5en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000284279300019en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Journalsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Research and Essaysen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectEmergency departmenten_US
dc.subjectdrug poisoningen_US
dc.subjectdemographical featuresen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleDemographic features of acute drug poisoning admitted to Inonu University Hospital in Malatya, Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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