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- Title
Acute Severe Poisoning in Spain: Clinical Outcome Related to the Implicated Drugs.
- Authors
Frati, M.E.; Marruecos, L.; Porta, M.; Martín, M.L.; Laporte, J.-R.
- Abstract
1 The 91 patients over the age of 10 (57 women and 32 men) with severe self-poisoning admitted to the ICU of a general hospital in Barcelona during the period 1974-1980 have been retrospectively studied.2 Previous suicidal attempts have been identified among 32 patients; 26 patients presented a history of personality disorders, and 19 had a neurological disease, a chronic physical illness, or a history of alcoholism.3 Sedative-hypnotic drugs were involved in about half the number of cases, and one fifth of total cases were due to tricyclic antidepressants and phenothiazines. Paracetamol was only involved in 2 cases, and heroin in another 2 cases.4 Many of the most severe morbidity manifestations were related to overdoses by intermediate-acting barbiturates. Two out of a total of 5 deaths were related to butalbitone overdose. Butalbitone had been ingested as a fixed-dose combination containing butalbitone, propyphenazone, and caffeine, which is freely dispensed as an analgesic in Spain.
- Publication
Human & Experimental Toxicology, 1983, Vol 2, Issue 3, p625
- ISSN
0960-3271
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/096032718300200407