@article{article_158920, title={Intoxication Cases in an Intensive Care Unit}, journal={Journal of Turgut Ozal Medical Center}, volume={22}, pages={218–220}, year={2015}, author={Özdemir, Abdullah and Şen, Ahmet and Erdivanlı, Başar and Tuğcugil, Ersagun and Kazancıoğlu, Leyla and Özdemir, Asiye}, keywords={Yoğun Bakım, İntoksikasyon, Suicid}, abstract={<p> <strong>Aim: </strong> Intoxication is the development of unwanted effects due to exposure to an agent. We retrospectively investigated intoxication cases requiring intensive care treatment, and aim to present demographics, etiologies and prognoses. </p> <p> <strong>Material and Methods: </strong> We retrospectively investigated records of 23 patients, who were diagnosed with acute drug intoxication and treated in surgical intensive care unit during January 2013 and January 2014. </p> <p> <strong>Results: </strong> Data from a total of 23 patients (12 female, 52,5%) were analysed. The mean age of the patients was 26±10 years in women and  37±19 years in men. The reason of acute intoxication was suicide attempt with drugs in twenty patients (87%), bee bites in 2 patients (9%), and alcohol intoxication in one patient (3%). Five patients required mechanical ventilation secondary to respiratory insufficiency for an average of 9.6 days. The overall average duration of intensive care stay was 4.6 days. </p> <p> <strong>Conclusion: </strong> We conclude that majority of patients requiring intensive care treatment due to acute intoxication were female patients who attempted suicide and these patients required a very short duration of follow-up. We are in the opinion that follow-up quality of these patients and clinical management of intensive care units may benefit from periodical retrospective analysis of acute intoxication cases. </p> <p> <strong>Keywords: </strong> Intensive Care; Intoxication; Suicide. </p>}, number={4}, publisher={Inonu University}