THE PROFILE OF POISONING CALLS BETWEEN 2005 AND 2014 RECEIVED BY HACETTEPE DRUG AND POISON INFORMATION UNIT

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 213 - 213, 16.02.2017

Ayçe Çelıker Gülru Gürdemır

Abstract

In this report
poisoning calls received by Hacettepe Drug and Poison Information Unit were epidemiologically
evaluated. The ratio of poisoning enquiries was 23.3 % in all calls. In annual
distribution of the numbers of poisoning calls showed a peak in 2006 with 18.1
% afterwards steadily declined in the graph. 
While pharmaceutical drugs were found as the main cause of poisoning
with 58.1 %, household products and pesticides followed them. with percentages
of 10.5 and 7.6 respectively. The ratio of female to male was 1.2 /1.0. Major
mode of poisoning was accidental (68.5 %), and most of the victims were younger
than 5 years of age (65 %). Suicidal attempts were encountered mostly in 17 to
40 years of age group (71 %). While females were dominant in suicidal attempts,
accidental exposures affected both sexes equally. The majority of the callers
were physicians (65.9 %), and the locations of them were mostly state hospitals
including former social security hospitals (39.9 %). Whereas almost 30 %   of calls were received from Ankara, Istanbul
was the second city with lower percentage (16.2 %). In this period only one mortality
was recorded, in fact the case was exitus, when Hacettepe Drug and Poison
Informattion Unit was called. 

Keywords

THE PROFILE OF POISONING CALLS BETWEEN 2005 AND 2014 RECEIVED BY HACETTEPE DRUG AND POISON INFORMATION UNIT

References

• Ayçe ÇELIKER, Gülru GÜRDEMIR
• Hacettepe Drug and Poison Information Unit, Ankara, Turkey