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Acute poisonings during pregnancy and in other non‐pregnant women in emergency departments of four government hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 2010‐2015
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Objective: To characterise acute poisonings in pregnant and non‐pregnant women treated at emergency departments of government hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between 2010 and 2015. Methods: All data for acutely poisoned women were retrospectively collected from patient medical charts at the emergency departments of Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ras Desta Memorial Hospital, Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College and Zewditu Memorial Hospital. Data were collected by extraction questionnaire and analysed using SPSS v. 20 statistical software. Results: During the study period, 998 cases of acutely poisoned women were listed in the hospital registries. Of these, complete data for inclusion in the study were available for 592. 36.3% of the study participants were in the age group of 20–24, with a mean (±SD) age of 23.03 (±6.3) years. 80.9% were from Addis Ababa; 4.6% were pregnant. The mean arrival time of all cases was 4.14 h. 85.5% of all study cases were due to intentional self‐poisoning, of whom 42.1% were discharged without complications. The most common poisons were bleach and organophosphates; 25.9% of pregnant cases and 32.6% of non‐pregnant cases were poisoned by bleach; and 18.5% of pregnant cases and 18.9% of non‐pregnant cases had organophosphate poisoning. 0.7% had a history of poisoning; all were non‐pregnant women. The common route of poison exposure was oral, and the case fatality rate of organophosphate poisoning in pregnant and non‐pregnant women was 20 and 1.87%, respectively. The pre‐hospital intervention for the majority of the women was milk, in 12.0% of cases. Conclusion: Acute poisoning remains a public health problem in our community. Bleach is the most common poisons. Our present findings indicate the necessity of educational programmes on preventable reasons of acute poisonings and their outcomes on pregnant and non‐pregnant women.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Eyasu, M., Dida, T., Worku, Y., Worku, S., & Shafie, M.
- Affiliations
- St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (ET)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eyasu, Mebrahtu
- Venue
- Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-09-13
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1350-1360
- ISSN
- 1360-2276 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-3156
- OpenAlex
- W2755827298
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 0.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Tropical Medicine & International Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Historical and Scientific Studies
- Keywords
- acute poisoning, pregnancy, women, emergency department, intentional self-poisoning, organophosphate poisoning, case fatality rate, poison prevention education, Addis Ababa
- MeSH terms
- Acute Disease, Adolescent, Adult, Emergency Service, Hospital, Ethiopia, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Poisoning, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Retrospective Studies, Women's Health, Young Adult
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