The characteristcs of the acute poisoning patients in emergency department of a general hospital in a new emerging district / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the charaeteristcs of the acute poisoning patients in the emergency department of a general hospital in a new emerging district by analyzing the data of Hangzhou.Methods A retrospective study of the characteristics of the poisoning patients in emergency department of Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Provinee from January 2004 to December 2004 was conducted and statistically analyzed.Results There were 318 poisoning patients in this year, accounting for 8.3% of the total patients in emergency department.Among these poisoning patients,female was 58.8% and male 41.2%;patients aged 21～30 years old accounted for 53.3%;alcoholic poisoning was the major cause and accounted for 34.3%,and 83.3% were male;as the second eanso,sedative accounted for 34.0%,and 72.4% were female;food poisoning accounted for 6.91%,and students was 90.9%.There was no relation between season and poisoning type.In the poisoning patients,30.8% were career men,and 19.5% were unemployed,19.6% were students,and 85.2 % were deliberate.Conclusion Young persons and career men were the high-risk group of poisoning, poisoning type was connected with work and gender.