Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health (Aug 2024)

Socio Demographic Profile of the Poisoning Cases in Kashmir Valley

  • Farhana Bashir,
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Rather,
  • Bashrat Salem,
  • Abdul Hamid ,
  • SM Kadri

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 6

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A retrospective study of poisoning cases admitted in ICU [Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care GMC Srinagar] from Jan 2006 to May 2014 was conducted to evaluate the socio demographic variables and type of poison consumed in these cases. Organophosphorous poisoning cases were predominant, amounting to 394 cases. Maximum cases (281) were in the age group of 18 to 35 years. Female predominance was seen in the study population. It was observed that unmarried people (294) had high incidence of poisoning as compared to married people (150). Most of the cases admitted in ICU were from south zone (204) which had a population of 2,328,950 as compared to central (129) and north (111) zones of Kashmir that had a population of 1,250,173 and 2,573,169 respectively.

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