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Aim: In our study, we aimed to investigate the demographic, socia-cultural and laboratory findings of the patients who admitted to our pediatric emergency department for medical drug intoxication, retrospectively. We also aimed to put forward the possible preventive methods. Materials and methods: We investigated the recorded information of 256 patients who applied to our pediatric emergency department for medical drugs intoxication between January and December 2013. We evaluated the parameters; age, sex, living place, social status, parents education, hospitalization time and the duration between intoxication and application to hospital. We also recorded laboratory findings, the type of drug and the reason of poisoning. We used the SPSS 20.0 for statistical analysis. Results: While 180 patients were accidentally poisoned, 76 patients were poisoned suicidal. 134 patients were female, 122 patients were male. Considering all poisoning cases, there was no statistically differences in terms of gender. However, there was a significant increase for women in suicide cases. 216 patients were poisoned by one drug, 28 were poisoned by two drugs, and 12 were poisoned by 3 or more than drugs. The most common poisoning agents were analgesics and antipyretics (41.7%). Leucosytosis, increased creatine and increased LDH were the most common pathological laboratory findings. Sinusoidal tachycardia and prolonged QT interval were the most common pathological ECG findings. We believe that a significant reduction in mortality or adverse outcomes can be achieved thanks to raising the educational level of the society, early admission to the hospital, appropriate treatments and close monitoring in poisoning cases.

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