Özet:

Introduction: In our study, we aimed at identifying the demographic and clinical characteristics of the detoxification occurrences applied to the Emergency Service of the Marmara University Hospital. Method: The records of incidents that apply to the Emergency Service of the University Hospital of Marmara between 01.06.2005 and 31.12.2006 were scaned backward, the gender of the incidents, age, time of application, proximity, causes and ways of poisoning, the level of medication is considered or not, the period of stay in intensive care with the emergency and internal diseases service of the incident, the psychiatric consultation is requested or not, the previously organized event tracking forms were recorded. The findings: Hundreds and forty cases of poisoning have been taken to study. The time of application for the emergency service with the contact of the cases with toxic substances was 7.61 hours. There were 78 incidents on the day and 69 incidents on the night. The cause of 72 incidents of poisoning was the drug, 63 of which were nutritional and 12 were alcoholic. The most frequently approached application was in the form of nausea, tendency to sleep, vomiting. None of the symptoms occurred in the blood were not seen in the level of medication. 102 cases were treated in emergency services, 45 cases were hospitalized. It was requested a psychiatric consultation for 65 cases. The result: the data we obtain from the detoxification incidents that apply to our hospital emergency service shows similar features to previous studies in Turkey. It is more likely to occur in young women and drugs. The average age of drug poisoned events is younger than the nutrition and alcohol, the time of application is found earlier, and all of them are suicidal. These patients were monitored by hospitalization and most were asked for psychiatric consultation.

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