Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

PATTERN AND OUTCOME OF ACUTE POISONING CASES AT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Dr Jayaprakash

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Almost, a million people die annually as a result of suicide with chemicals accounting for a majority of these deaths. It is assessed that deliberate ingestion of pesticides causes 3,70,000 deaths each year. It has been estimated that in India five to six persons per lakh of population die due to acute poisoning every year. Poisoning is the fourth most common cause of mortality in rural India. In India, Aluminium Phosphide (ALP) and Organophosphate Poisonings (OP) are widely used to control pests and insects and have become major contributors of deaths due to poisoning. This study has been aimed to determine the demographic pattern that is the mode and type of poisoning and try to come at a statistics of the outcome.

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PATTERN AND OUTCOME OF ACUTE POISONING CASES AT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL , Dr Jayaprakash , PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-11 | November-2018

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