The analysis of 138 severe poisoning patients in emergency intensive care unit / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the epidemiology and features of severe poisoning.Methods A retrospective analysis of patients with severe poisoning admitted into the emergency intensive care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital from February 2008 to March 2010 was made.Results A total of 138 patients consisting of 45 males and 93 females were enrolled.The average age was 39.2 years.Committed suicide with toxic agents was the major cause of poisoning (76.8％ ),followed by alcoholism (8.7％ ) and misuse of medicine (5.8％).Of them,96.4％ patients were poisoned by swallowing poison agents,and 45.7％ patients were treated with gastric lavage and 15.2％ of patients with hemofiltration.Mortality was 3.62％.Conclusions Our study presents the current status of acute severe poisoning in the large general hospital.