2013, Number 03
Characterization of patients with acute poisoning due to psycho drugs
Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 23 patients with acute poisoning due to psycho drugs, assisted in the Emergent Intensive Care Service from "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from October, 2010 to the same month, 2011, with the objective of characterizing them according to some selected variables. The information was processed with the program SPSS, version 10.1. The percentage was used as summary measure and the chi-square hypothesis test was applied for independent variables. Patients from 15-24 years (61.0 %), female sex and the poisonings due to combined psycho drugs prevailed; it was also obtained that 44.4 % of the affected patients with assistance interval of more than 6 hours presented with complications, most of them of cardiovascular type.REFERENCES
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