Severe fenthion intoxications due to ingestion and inhalation with survival outcome

Tsatsakis, Aristidis; Βertsias, George; Liakou, V; Mammas, Ioannis N.; Stiakakis, I.; Tzanakakis, George N.

doi:10.1191/0960327102ht232cr

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“…17) This was probably because the onset of symptoms in fenthion poisoning is often delayed for up to several days after admission to hospital and the predominant toxicity is delayed onset of respiratory paralysis. 47,48) Therefore, in this study, we assessed the severity of patients on admission using two scoring systems (GCS and PSS), and then followed up with patient's clinical outcome (e.g., improved, discharged with severe morbidity or deceased) not only to find out the sensitivity of GCS and PSS scoring systems with the clinical outcome of poisoning, but also the correlation between GCS and PSS scoring systems.…”

Section: Prediction Of Severity By Two Scoring Systems and Their Relamentioning

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Prospective Assessment of Patterns, Severity and Clinical Outcome of Indian Poisoning Incidents

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The objective of this study was to assess the patterns, severity and clinical outcome of poisoning incidents. A prospective assessment was conducted over a period of 1 year in tertiary-care teaching hospitals. Glasgow coma scale (GCS), poisoning severity score (PSS), and snake bite severity score (SSS) were used to predict the severity of poisoning, and then compared to the clinical outcome. The study involved 212 patients with a mean age of 26.7 12.7 years. Pesticides were found to be the most common poisoning agents. The incidents of intentional poisoning (n 178) were higher than accidental (n 34) poisoning. Poisoning incidents were higher in male population (n 132) compared to female population (n 80). The poisoning incidents were predominantly higher among literates (n 155). The poisoning incidents were higher in rural areas (n 129), followed by urban (n 53) and semi-urban (n 30) areas. The poisoning incidents were highest in the middle class population (n 108), followed by poor class (n 101) and rich class (n 3) population. A majority of patients whose severity of illness was predicted to be mild to moderate recovered from the poisoning. In contrast, patients whose illness was predicted to be severe were either discharged with severe morbidity or deceased. There was a moderate correlation between GCS and PSS scoring systems (r 0.51, p<0.001).

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Section: Prediction Of Severity By Two Scoring Systems and Their Relamentioning

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Prospective Assessment of Patterns, Severity and Clinical Outcome of Indian Poisoning Incidents

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“…Tsatsakis and colleagues (2001) reported an acute fatal poisoning by methomyl caused by inhalation and transdermal absorption and in 2002 reported two cases of severe fenthion intoxication (Tsatsakis et al, 2002). The first of these latter cases involved a psychiatric patient who attempted to commit suicide by ingestion of fenthion, and the second case was a child exposed by air spraying.…”

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