120967 20240319081014.0 doi 10.3389/fpubh.2022.990262 sideral 131420 ART-2022-131420 eng Aguilón-Leiva, Juan José Clinical and sociodemographic profile of acute intoxications in an emergency department: A retrospective cross-sectional study 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Background: Epidemiological studies about acute poisoning are useful for developing clinical toxicology, especially those carried out in hospital emergency departments. We aimed to evaluate acute intoxication clinical and sociodemographic profile in South Aragon Hospital, Spain. Methods: We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study. We included 442 patients treated for acute poisoning in the emergency department during the 3 years 2015–2018. In the inferential analysis, the Chi-square test was used to compare proportions, and the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to compare ranges. A confidence level of 95 per cent was considered in all tests. Results: The mean age was 44.1 years. 57.2% were men. Drugs of abuse were present in 243 patients (55%), drugs in 172 (38.9%), chemicals in 57 (12.9%) and three patients (0.7%) were poisoned by mushrooms. Nine different drugs of abuse, 73 drugs, 15 chemical compounds and 2 varieties of mushrooms were registered. Of the intoxicated patients, 92.3% had symptoms, 84.2% received treatment and 78.7% were discharged from the emergency department. Conclusions: We obtain a clear clinical and sociodemographic profile of intoxicated patients who come to the emergency department; the five toxins that cause most acute poisoning are: alcohol, benzodiazepines, antiarrhythmics, cannabis and carbon monoxide. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 5.2 2022 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 25 / 180 = 0.139 2022 Q1 T1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 43 / 207 = 0.208 2022 Q1 T1 1.125 2022 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2022 Q1 3.8 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Tejada-Garrido, Clara Isabel Echániz-Serrano, Emmanuel Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-4753-630X Mir-Ramos, Eduardo Torres-Pérez, Antonio Manuel Lafuente-Jiménez, Alberto Martínez-Soriano, María Santolalla-Arnedo, Iván Czapla, Michal Smereka, Jacek Juárez-Vela, Raúl Satústegui-Dordá, Pedro José Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0083-5940 1006 255 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Fisiatría y Enfermería Área Enfermería 10 (2022), 990262 [8 pp.] Front. public health. Frontiers in public health 2296-2565 522426 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120967/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2323476 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120967/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:120967 articulos driver 2024-03-18-15:27:47 ARTICLE