Abstract:

This study was conducted to review the data of patients treated with the diagnosis of intoxication in Ahi Evran University Training and Research Hospital Adults Intensive Care Unit and to compare those data with other research. The files of patients treated with the diagnosis of intoxication in Ahi Evran University Training and Research Hospital Adults Intensive Care Unit between 01.06 2013 and 01.06. 2014 were examined. Age, gender, educational status, history, toxic substance or number of toxic substances by which being influenced, ways of taking toxic substances, ways of supplying toxic substances, Glasgow coma score, admission time to hospital, mechanical ventilation requirements, complications, length of stay in intensive care unit, ways of leaving intensive exit of patients were recorded. 87 patients aged between 14 and 85 years were treated. The average age of the patients was 27.56. 72.4% of patients were female and 27.6% were male. The 98.9% of the patients took medication for suicidal purpose. Drugs used were analgesic, antidepressant, antipsychotic, anti-influenza, antibiotics, antiepileptics, and antihypertensives respectively. The non-drug substances that cause intoxication were organophosphate, wheat with rat poison, and cleaning chemicals. 46% of patients had taken antidepressant treatment before, and 4.6% of them had previously attempted suicide. An hour after the first exposure to the drug, 51.7% of patients were admitted to hospital. Only 50.6% of the patients received a single drug, whereas the rest received a large number of drugs. When they came to the intensive care, 81.6% of the patient's score had been identified as 15 in Glasgow. Two patients were in need of mechanical ventilation. 64.4% of patients were transferred to the service and 33.3% were discharged. Our mortality rate was 2.3 % and no mortality in women had been detected. Similar to the studies conducted in several centers, young women, who took drugs for suicidal purpose, constitute the majority of patients treated for intoxication in our intensive care unit. Analgesics and antidepressants were often used as drugs.

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