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Acute drug poisonings leading to hospitalization
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Knowledge about current trends and epidemiology in poisonings is important to maintain quality in diagnostics, treatment and prevention. We performed a cross‐sectional study of all cases (n = 261) admitted with drug poisoning to Aalborg University Hospital during 1 year in 2017–2018. Median age was 30 (22–49) years, and 58% were female. Fifty percent were suicide attempts. In most cases, involved drugs were identified by history taking; blood analysis barely revealed any additional paracetamol and salicylicate poisonings. Drugs prescribed to the patient or available over the counter were involved in nearly two thirds of cases. Weak analgesics dominated by paracetamol (n = 91, 35%) was the most frequently involved group of drugs followed by opioids and benzodiazepines. Gender differences were observed with respect to involvement of weak analgesics and central stimulants. A higher prevalence of unidentified involved drugs was observed in 26 cases (10%) in which the length of admission exceeded 2 days and/or intensive care was needed. No deaths, cardiac arrhythmias or physical complications occurred. Thus, current handling of the acute poisoning seems effective in most cases. However, a more tailored use of blood analyses including a toxicological screen in selected cases may represent an opportunity for improvement.
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“Denmark had the highest proportion of poisonings attributable to analgesics at 40.2%, noting that this was a proportion of drug poisonings only rather than all poisonings [133].”
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“It accounted for over a quarter of all drug poisonings in Denmark [133] and of all poisonings in a cohort of > 17 000 patients in Australia [159].”
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“We found a weighted mean of 11.5 (range 0.1-88.9)analgesic poisonings per 100,000 population per year, lowest in China and Botswana (Supplementary Figure S4) [125-128,130-134,136,139,145-157].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Andersen, C. U., Nielsen, L. P., Møller, J. M., & Olesen, A. E.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Aalborg University Hospital (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Andersen, Charlotte Uggerhøj
- Venue
- Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021-12-03
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 328-336
- ISSN
- 1742-7835 (ISSN-L)
- 1742-7843
- OpenAlex
- W3216954007
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 2.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Keywords
- acute drug poisoning, hospitalization, suicide attempts, acetaminophen toxicity, salicylate toxicity, opioids, benzodiazepines, central stimulants, toxicity screening, blood analysis, gender differences, over-the-counter drugs, intensive care
- MeSH terms
- Acute Disease, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Nonprescription Drugs, Female, Hospitalization, Hospitals, University, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Poisoning, Retrospective Studies, Suicide, Attempted, Prescription Drugs, Young Adult
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