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2539343

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-5-19
pubmed:abstractText
A retrospective study on patients with acute poisoning admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Ichilov Hospital over a 3-year period (1982-84) is presented. Of 419 patients seen in the Emergency Room for intoxication during these years, 71 (17%) required intensive care upon admission. Suicide attempts accounted for 90% of the ICU admissions, with drugs of the benzodiazepine (BDZ) group being the most commonly used (51%). Mixed-drug overdose was seen in 55% of the patients. There was a poor correlation between the drugs suspected on admission and those actually detected in the blood. Although the total number of admissions due to poisoning increased in 1984 (21 in 1982 vs. 37 in 1984), mechanical ventilation was required by fewer patients (92% in 1982 vs. 51% in 1984) and for a shorter period of time (3.1 days in 1982 vs. 2.1 days in 1984), which resulted in a shorter ICU stay (4.8 days in 1982 vs. 3.1 days in 1984). The introduction of the new BDZ antagonist flumazenil may have partially accounted for this positive trend.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0021-2180
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
98-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute poisoning treated in the intensive care unit: a case series.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article