Research Article

The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose

Volume: 1 Number: 1 March 1, 2019
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The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose

Abstract

Introduction: Throughout the history of humanity, suicides in all societies are not only a matter of concern to the psychiatrists, but also have economic, cultural and social aspects. The World Health Organization divides the suicides into completed suicides and suicide attempts and determines that the completed suicides result in deaths. Suicide attempts are all non-lethal voluntary attempts to destroy, harm, and poison oneself.

Method: Our study was done retrospectively in the emergency department of Faculty Hospital at Atatürk University. The files of the intoxication patients who applied to our hospital between 01.01.2010 and 31.12.2011 were examined. The patients who applied to our hospital after taking pills for suicidal reasons were included in the study. In addition to demographic data such as age, gender, marital status, these patients were classified according to the drugs they took like psychiatric drugs (antidepressant, anxiolytic) and analgesic (paracetamol, NSAID) and antibiotic drugs. Psychiatric diagnose, Glasgow coma score, blood pH  at the time of presentation, glucose and hospitalization time(less than 1 day, more than 1 day) were registered.

Results: From the file scan, the data of a sum of 234 patients was reached. 69.7% (n = 163) of the patients were female. The mean age of the patients was 24.64 (± 9.463). According to marital status, 75 (32.1%) of the patients were married, 150 (64.1%) were single, 5 were widow (2.1%) and 4 (n = 1.7) patients were engaged. According to the drugs they used for suicide, there were 72 (30.8%) patients who used psychiatric drugs and 83 (35.5) patients who used analgesics and antibiotics. The number of patients that were hospitalized above 24 hours was 38 (16.2%). In the statistical analysis, there was no significant difference between GCS, pH and Glucose values of the patients who committed suicide with Psychiatric and Antibiotic-Analgesic drugs (p> 0.05). Similarly, there was also no significant difference between hospitalization times (p> 0.05).

Discussion: As a result of our study, it was found that the patients that committed and attempted suicide were under 30 years old and mostly women. Considering the drugs used for suicidal purposes, no difference could be detected between the use of analgesic-antibiotics and psychiatric medication on blood parameters and GCS.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Toxicology

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

İlker Akbaş This is me
Türkiye

Publication Date

March 1, 2019

Submission Date

January 12, 2019

Acceptance Date

February 15, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Akbaş, İ., Akgöl Gür, S. T., & Koçak, A. O. (2019). The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose. Eurasian Journal of Toxicology, 1(1), 21-24. https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA
AMA
1.Akbaş İ, Akgöl Gür ST, Koçak AO. The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose. Eurasian J Tox. 2019;1(1):21-24. https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA
Chicago
Akbaş, İlker, Sultan Tuna Akgöl Gür, and Abdullah Osman Koçak. 2019. “The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and PH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose”. Eurasian Journal of Toxicology 1 (1): 21-24. https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA.
EndNote
Akbaş İ, Akgöl Gür ST, Koçak AO (March 1, 2019) The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose. Eurasian Journal of Toxicology 1 1 21–24.
IEEE
[1]İ. Akbaş, S. T. Akgöl Gür, and A. O. Koçak, “The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose”, Eurasian J Tox, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21–24, Mar. 2019, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA
ISNAD
Akbaş, İlker - Akgöl Gür, Sultan Tuna - Koçak, Abdullah Osman. “The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and PH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose”. Eurasian Journal of Toxicology 1/1 (March 1, 2019): 21-24. https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA.
JAMA
1.Akbaş İ, Akgöl Gür ST, Koçak AO. The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose. Eurasian J Tox. 2019;1:21–24.
MLA
Akbaş, İlker, et al. “The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and PH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose”. Eurasian Journal of Toxicology, vol. 1, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp. 21-24, https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA.
Vancouver
1.İlker Akbaş, Sultan Tuna Akgöl Gür, Abdullah Osman Koçak. The Evaluation of Blood Glucose and pH Levels of the Patients Who Attempt Suicide With Drug Overdose. Eurasian J Tox [Internet]. 2019 Mar. 1;1(1):21-4. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA68BG49ZA