Abstract

GONZALEZ BRIZUELA, Carlos Manuel; SANCHEZ PACHECO, Delia Luisa; VERDECIA ESCALONA, Margarita  and  RAMOS SANCHEZ, Inaudis. Exogenous poisoning at a pediatric intensive care unit. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp. 167-174. ISSN 1029-3019.

An epidemiological descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 48 patients admitted due to acute exogenous poisoning at the Intensive Care Unit of "Juan de la Cruz Martínez Maceira" Northern Teaching Children Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2006 to December 2010, with the purpose of characterizing them according to some clinical epidemiological variates. Ages between10 and 14 years, female sex, suicidal attempts as the most important past medical history predominated in the series, as well as the critical condition of patients to be hospitalized, urban origin, especially from Santiago de Cuba municipality and drugs as the most frequent causative xenobiotic with prevalence of carbamazepine. To evaluate the information the percentage calculation was used and the results were expressed as a percentage, which showed the need to continue to improve intervention strategies, with the integration of primary and secondary levels of care

Keywords : exogenous poisoning; drugs; suicidal attempt; Intensive Care Unit; children hospita.

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