Acute Intoxications Admitted to Intensive Care Unit: Retrospective Evaluation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Acute intoxication is a important public health problem that occur suicidal or unintentionally drug overdose.We aimed to retrospectively review the demographic and clinical data of the patients who were followed up in intensive care unit due to acute intoxication. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the files of all 152 patients who admitted to intensive care unit between January 2014- January 2016 due to acute intoxication. RESULTS: The 118 of 152 patients were female, 34 were male. The mean length of stay in the intensive care unit was 1,85+-1,05 days. The 118 of 152 /%77.6) patients were under 30 years old. The rate of intoxications were statistically lower in male than females under 30 years old. (p<0.05) Suicidal attempt was found in 145 patients (%95,32). the use of medicine drugs were the majority of suicide cases (90.7%). The most frequent medicine drugs were analgesics (36,8%), psycoactive drugs (%23) and antimicrobials (19,7). %42,1 of caes were intoxicated with one drug, %48,02 of cases were multiple drug intoxicated. There was only one death due to pepticide poisoning. The rate of seasonal distribution of intoxications were spring (44%). The mean time to ICU admission was 292,93+-201,75 minutes. Conclusion: Acute intoxications were mostly seen in especially female young female adults and the most common was suicidal by medicine drugs. The most common used drugs for poisoning were analgesics. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Acute intoxications were mostly seen in especially female young female adults and the most common was suicidal by medicine drugs. The most common used drugs for poisoning were analgesics.

Keywords

• acute intoxication
• intensive care unit
• retrospective.