- Title
- Poisoning
- Creator
- Jones, Alison L.
- Relation
- Davidson's Essentials of Medicine p. 33-47
- Relation
- http://www.elsevierhealth.com.au/Medicine/specialty/book/9780702030017/Davidsons-Essentials-of-Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier / Churchill Livingstone
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Acute poisoning accounts for 10-20% of acute medical admissions in the UK. There is wide geographical variation in the substances involved in poisoning. In the UK, paracetamol poisoning is common, but it accounts for only 7% of overdoses in the USA. Poisoning with tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and drugs of misuse is very common in the UK and USA. In South-East Asia, pesticide ingestion is endemic, and constitutes the most common cause of death by poisoning.
- Subject
- poisoning; paracetamol poisoning; tricyclic antidepressants; drugs of misuse; pesticide ingestion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918068
- Identifier
- uon:8507
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780702030017
- Language
- eng
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