1Department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur
2Department of Community Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur
3Department of Biochemistry, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur
4Department of Biochemistry, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur
*Address for correspondence: Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Govt. Medical College & Maharani Hospital Jagdalpur (Bastar) – 494 001 Chhattisgarh M: 08871148387, 9669193689 E-mail: tekade_pawan@yahoo.co.in
Poisoning results in a heavy death toll and is associated with underreporting and misclassification. Further lack of research and details about morbidity and mortality pattern related to different poisonous compounds create difficulty in management of poisoning cases in emergency care centres.
To know the morbidity and mortality pattern among ingested poisoning cases of different poisonous compounds.
Hospital based descriptive study; Pre-designed pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data from 100 ingested poisoning cases.
Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Mayo Hospital, Nagpur.
Type of poison consumed, outcome, and hospitalization delay.
Chi square test, mean, standard deviation and percentage.
Majority (37%) of poisoning cases consumed organophosphorus compounds. Highest fatality (23.33%) was seen with organophosphorus compounds. Longest average duration of hospital stay (H”6 days) was seen with insecticide compound (organophosphorus/organochlorine) poisoning. Definite statistical association was found between outcome and time duration in between poisoning and hospitalization, fatality reduces on early hospitalization (X² = 10.45, df= 3, P< 0.015).
Organophosphorus was the commonest poison used and may be attributed to its easy availability. Early management of poisoning cases, training of paramedical personnel and education programmes together with an effective telecommunication system will reduce fatality associated with poisoning.
Poisoning, Organophosphorus, Hospitalization delay
