Evaluating the Incidence and Impact of Poisoning Cases: A Prospective Descriptive Study at Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, a Tertiary Care Hospital in Jammu & Kashmir

Abstract

Poisoning is a condition in which a person swallows, inhales, touchs or injects various drugs, chemicals , venoms or gases that leads to his/ her injury or deterioration of health condition, alteration in his/her consciousness, physiological imbalances in the body, or even death. Some of the drugs that are used on a daily basis for the treatment of various diseases become poisonous only when they are used in higher concentration or used in bulk quantities deliberately in order to induce some other effects for which the drug is not actually prescribed or advised. The common example of this may be benzodiazepine, tricyclic antidepressants and other antipsychotic drugs. Nowadays we are just observing the trends that the young population is consuming certain types of bathroom cleaners like phenyl, harpic etc that only become harmful when they are taken in large quantities or have potential to emit gases and fumes or produce harmful substances in the body. To these harmful gases or chemicals the children are most sensitive and get poisoned by a small amount of these drugs. The main aim and objective of this study was to get an estimate about the magnitude and burden of poisoning cases in SKIMS soura which is the care hospital in Jammu and Kashmir. In order to get a brief account of poisoning cases in Sher i Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura Srinagar we just selected the emergency medicine department and department of anaesthesiology and critical care for the selection of study subjects in the year 2019-2020 and prospective study was done under quantitative research approach. In our study the sample size was 40 and the purposive sampling was done. The results of the present study depicted that (18) 45 % were males and (22) 55 % were females. The Maximum number 15 (37.5%) of patients belonged to (21-30) years of age group. The maximum 31 (77.5%) ofthe study subjects were from rural areas. The results showed that 24 (60%) of study subjects were unmarried. The maximum 14 (35%) of the study subjects were students, and the maximum number 10 (25%) of study subjects were received in the emergency department in the month of October.The maximum 15 (37.50%) were having a
history of Depression/suicidal tendency. The study revealed that majority 26 (65%) of study subjects had consumed OP compounds,gastric lavage sample was collected from majority 24 (60%) of study subjects, majority 26 (65%) of the study subjects received PAM as antidote for poisoning, in muscarinic symptoms the majority 36 study subjects had complained of abdominal pain, majority 29 (72.50%) of study subjects had consumed poison deliberately with the intention of suicide, out of total (40) study subjects only 2 (5%) deaths occured out of which 1 was male and 1 was female. The death percentage for male study subjects
were 5.55 % (n=18) and for females the death percentage was less with 4.54 % (n=22).

How to cite this article:
Dar M I. Evaluating the Incidence and Impact of Poisoning Cases: A Prospective Descriptive Study at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, a Tertiary Care Hospital in Jammu & Kashmir. Ind J Holist Nurs. 2023;14(3):15-22.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2348.2133.202312