Retrospective Study of Common Poisoning at Tertiary Care Centre

Acute poisoning with various substances is common everywhere. The earlier the patient reaches Tertiary Care Centre the better is resuscitation and good outcome is expected with use of specific antidote. The aim of study is to characterize the poisoning cases admitted to Tertiary Care Centre at Kolhapur district in CPR Hospital Government Medical College, Maharashtra between 2012 to 2015. We reviewed the data obtained from the hospital medical records and included the factors like Compound consumed, age of patients, demographic factors, occupation & outcome of patients and psychiatric evaluation. Total 1774 patients were studied. Out of which 1064 were males & 710 were females from age group of 14 to 85 years. Death due to OPP is 11.94 %, Paraquat Poisoning is 58 % & unknown poisoning is 10.66 %. We can prevent deaths by early intervention and specific antidotes if we know the compound before-hand. In our study, unknown compounds were difficult to trace and diagnose due to unavailability of specific tests in our centre as well as non-affordability was also an issue.