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The Survey of Intoxication in the Two Hospitals of the City of Goyang
Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jun-Soek Park, Dong-Wun Shin, Jun-Young Rho, Hey-Jin Kim, Hong-Du Gu, Jin-Kyung Cho, Ah-Jin Kim
Journal of The Korean Society of Clinical Toxicology 2006;4(1):25-31
DOI: https://doi.org/
Published online: June 30, 2006
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1Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
2Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
3Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
4Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
5Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
6Department of Emergency Medicine, National Health Insurance Corporation, Ilsan Hospital
7Department of Emergency Medicine, National Health Insurance Corporation, Ilsan Hospital
8Department of Emergency Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital

Purpose: In the year of 2005, it enforced the basic study for establishing program of Poison Control Center by National Institute of Toxicologic Research. The object of our survey is to analyze the characteristics of intoxication from the City of Goyang by same protocol. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data of medical records of the intoxication patient in the two hospitals of the Goyang from 2004 June 1st to 2005 May 31th. The investigation protocol applied the TESS report form which was used from the Basic study for establishing program of Poison Control Center. Results: The intoxication patients were total 269 persons, the patients of A hospital were 184 persons, B hospital were 185 persons. The most common intoxication materials were medicines, in afterwords it was an agricultural chemical. The most common place of intoxication was the home. The intentional suicidal attempts in the reason of intoxication were 51.2%. The rate of the patients who discharges from the emergency department was 50.4% and death rate was 4.3%. Conclusion: We concluded that the continuous and systemic report and analysis should be accomplished from the Goyang area.

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