Clinical Profile of Children Presenting with Intoxication on Emergency Departement Soetomo Hospital in 2011
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Introduction: Acute poisoning in children is an important pediatric emergency and is a world wide problem, the majority of these poisoning incidents are unintentional and preventable. Based on data from WHO, the mortality of children under 4 years varies between 0.3–7% per 100,000 population in some countries in the world. The incidence, clinical proï¬le and the type of poison and the output of poisoning cases in children in Surabaya until now there is no deï¬nitive data. The objective of the study was to study the clinical proï¬le and outcome of childhood poisoning and intoxication in Soetomo hospital.
Method: Design used in the study was a retrospective study done in children between 1 month and 18 years old of age who were admitted in emergency departement Soetomo hospital with diagnosis of acute poisoning between January until Desember 2012. Patients were proï¬led according to age, sex, poison consume and outcome.
Result: There were 12 patients enrolled in the study. Male: female ratio was 2:1. The mean age of presentation was 53 months. Hydrocarbon poisoning was the commonest poisoning seen in (41.7%) patients followed by organophospat (33.3%) poisoning. During treatment, 58.3% received antibiotics, 25% patients who poisoning with organophosphat received antidots and 50% from all sample received antagonist histamin H2 because of stomached. Overall survival was 91,6%.
Discussion: Hydrocarbon is the commonest agent involved in childhood poisoning. Overall, the outcome is good with 91,6% survival in our hospital.
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