| THE REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF DRUG POISONING IN EMERGENCY ROOM
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| Byung Ho Na1, Dong Ryul Oh1, Joo Il Hwang1, Keun Woo Lim2, Seung Jin Yu2, Il Young Park2, Hae Myung Chun2, Se Kyung Kim1 |
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Catholic University Medical College
2Department of General Surgery, Catholic University Medical College |
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Published online: June 30, 1995. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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We reviewed retrospectively 230 patients who came to emergency room of Kang Nam St. Mary's Hospital and Uijongbu St. Mary's Hospital between 1. January and 31. December 1994. We classified them according to their age, sex, a sort of drug, the cause of poisoning, prehospital care, time-lapse to arrive at hospital after poisoning, psychiatric problem, the status of patients.
*We concluded as follows ;
1. The male to female ratio was totally 1 : 1.98, 1 : 1.24 in a urban area, 1 : 2.43 in a rural area.
2. On age of the patients in this study, the peake incidence was between 20 and 39(55.2%).
3. On seasonal prevalence, the poisoning was most common in summer and spring, in urban area(35.7%) and rural area(37.0%) respectively.
4. The common drug were as follow ;
Doxylamine, Organophosphate, Acetaminophen in urban area, Paraquat, Organophospate, Doxylamine in rural area
5. The percentage of suicidal attempt were 81.8% and 87.7% in urban area and rural area respectively.
6. The poisoning patients had psychatric problem in 19.4% and 24.6%, in urban area and rural area respectively.
7. Before arrival to emergency room, 27.7% of patient was done prehospital care in rural area.
8. On arrival to emergency room, 95.1 % and 73.8% of patients show stable vital sign in
urban area and rural area respectively.
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