Clinical Profile of Poisoning Cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital –A Retrospective Study

Abstract

The present study was carried out to determine the clinical profile of patients presenting with the history
of poisoning admitted to the casualty in a tertiary care hospital.The commonest agents involved in the
poisoning were due to pesticides followed by therapeutic drugs, of these majority of cases, involved antiinflammatory, analgesic, anti-histamines followed by Sedatives/ hypnotics; accounted for almost half.
Among the pesticides, maximum poisoning was due to organophosphates followed by zinc phosphide. It is
important to know the nature of poisoning in order to take appropriate preventive measures. Therefore, the
knowledge of the general pattern of poisoning in a particular region will be a useful tool in planning and
management/proper treatment of critically ill poisoning cases.