Prevalence and Mortality Incidence of Poisoning Cases in Serdang Hospital

Abstract

In Malaysia, there were more than 35,000 poisoning cases enquiries were reported to the poison centre since its establishment from the year 1995 to 2014. The objective of our study is to determine the prevalence of poisoning cases and antidote used in Serdang Hospital. All poisoning cases admitted to the Serdang Hospital between January 2007 to December 2016 were evaluated retrospectively by using consecutive sampling. Data were obtained from Electronic Hospital Information System (eHIS) by using data collection form. Descriptive statistic was used to analyse the data. 903 patients were included in our study. The prevalence of poisoning cases during the study period is 0.22%. The fatality rate was 1.8% (n=16). More detailed data reveals that young adults aged between 18 to 29 years old, 44.2% (n=399) has the preponderance of poisoning cases, and females, 59.7% (n=539) admission dominated over males. Most poisoning cases were intentional, 74.5% (n=673) and related to the use of non-opioid analgesics, 35.7% (n=322). In summary, these trends of poisonings provides a foundation to recognise areas for training and education on self-injury prevention among healthcare providers and public society.

Keywords

• poisoning
• prevalence
• antidotes
• fatality
• intentional