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    Characteristics of acute adult poisonings in a university hospital emergency department in central Turkey: a three-year analysis
    (Pakistan Medical Assoc, 2012) Avsarogullari, Levent; Senol, Vesile; Akdur, Okhan; Akin, Aynur; Durukan, Polat; Ozkan, Seda
    Objective: To evaluate the etiologic and demographic characteristics of acute adult poisoning cases and to obtain up-to-date information on acute poisonings. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate 1254 adults who presented with acute poisoning to the Emergency Department of our tertiary care university hospital in central Turkey from January 2007 to December 2009. The data extracted from each chart related to age, gender, marital status, agent involved in the poisoning, season of event, route of poisoning, time between ingestion or exposure and arrival at the casualty ward, mechanism of toxic exposure (unintentional or intentional), level of consciousness, length of stay in the ward, and outcome. Results: Acute poisonings comprised 1.40% of Emergency Department patients; 65% were female, while 47% were between the ages of 16 and 25 years. Medicinal drugs were the most common cause of poisonings (68%), followed by gases (9.5%). Antidepressants were the most frequent drug ingested (18%), followed by analgesics (16%). Intentional poisonings constituted the majority of cases (78%). Most suicide attempts were made by women (68%) and majority of the patients were married (57%). Twenty patients (1.6%) died during their hospital stay, with organophosphate pesticides being the most common agent (n=8) involved in fatal poisonings. Conclusion: Pharmaceutical agents, carbon monoxide and pesticides are the three most common poisoning agents. Deliberate self-poisoning is common in adults in the area of the study; the risk being highest in females and younger adults. These up-to-date data provide important information on the characteristics of acute poisonings and can guide activities such as professional training, preventive measures, community education and new research.
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    Does usage of peritonism tests in an emergency department have any benefit?
    (Medical Association of Zenica-Doboj Canton, 2014) Akdur, Okhan; Durukan, Polat; Ozkan, Seda; Sozuer, Erdogan M.; Avsarogullari, Levent; Ikizceli, Ibrahim
    Aim To evaluate the usage of inspiration, expiration, cough, and heel drop jarring tests that are applied for determination of peritonism in cases with acute abdominal pain. Methods A prospective study based on observation of patients between 16-65 years of age and presented to the Emergency Department within a 3-month period starting from June 2007, was conducted. The patients were asked to rate their pain level between "0" and "10". Following the measurement of the vital signs, 4 tests were conducted by an emergency medicine resident. The medical records of all the patients were reviewed after 3 months. Data concerning clinical diagnosis, hospital admission and discharge processes, and surgical results, were all recorded. Results Seventy-seven patients had peritonism tests performed. Inspiration test was positive in 29 (of 51, 56.9%) patients admitted to the hospital. However, there was no correlation between the cases admitted to the hospital and the other 3 tests (p>0.05). Twenty-one (of 34, 61.8%) patients which have been subjected to surgical treatment, showed positive inspiration test results. Surgical treatment was performed on nine (of 11, 81.8%) patients who showed positive results for all 4 tests. Conclusion The applied tests are helpful in determining a serious abdominal disease, particularly alongside findings of rebound, tenderness, and laboratory results.
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    Poisoning severity score, Glasgow coma scale, corrected QT interval in acute organophosphate poisoning
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2010) Akdur, Okhan; Durukan, Polat; Ozkan, Seda; Avsarogullari, Levent; Vardar, Alper; Kavalci, Cemil; Ikizceli, Ibrahim
    The aim of this study was to investigate effectiveness of the poisoning severity score (PSS), Glasgow coma scale (GCS), and corrected QT (QTc) interval in predicting outcomes in acute organophosphates (OP) poisoning. Over a period of 2 years, 62 patients with OP poisoning were admitted to emergency department (ED) of Erciyes University Medical School Hospital. The age, sex, cause of contact, compound involved, time elapsed between exposure and admission to the ED, duration of hospital stay, and cardiac manifestations at the time of presentation were recorded. GCS and poisoning severity score (PSS) was calculated for each patient. Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis included the rate, rhythm, ST-T abnormalities, conduction defects, and measurement of PR and QT intervals. Sixty-two patients with OP poisoning presented to our ED from January 2007 to December 2008 from which 54 patients were included in the study. The mean age was 34.1 +/- 14.8 years. Of the cases, 53.7% were female. Twenty-six patients had a prolonged QTc interval. Mean PSS of men and women was 1.8 +/- 1.0. No statistically significant correlation was found between the PSS and QTc intervals of the cases. A significant correlation was determined between the GCS and PSS of grade 3 and grade 4 cases. GCS is a parameter that helps clinician to identify advanced grade OP poisoning patients in the initial assessment in the ED. However, ECG findings, such as prolonged QTc interval, are not effective in determination of short-term prognosis and show no relationship with PSS.