Acute poisoning with various substance is common everywhere. The earlier the initial resuscitations, gastric decontamination and use of specific antidotes, the better the outcome.  The aim of this study was to assess the socio–demographic variables and type of poison consumed admitted to the tertiary care hospital, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, SSIMS&RC, Davangere. Total poison cases were 216. Organophosphorous poisoning cases were predominant, amounting to 146 cases. Maximum cases (179) were in the age group of 20 to 35 years and were more (87) in the year of 2012. Male predominance was seen in the study population. Most of the cases admitted in ICU were from Davengere taluk (86) as compared to Harihara  (51), Harapanhalli (49), Changiri (14), Honnalli (09) and Jaglur (07) of Karnataka.