Socio Demographic Profile of the Poisoning Cases in Kashmir Valley
Keywords:
Organophosphorous Poisoning, Socio Demographic VariablesAbstract
A retrospective study of poisoning cases admitted in ICU [Department of
Anaesthesiology and Critical Care GMC Srinagar] from Jan 2006 to May 2014
was conducted to evaluate the socio demographic variables and type of poison
consumed in these cases. Organophosphorous poisoning cases were
predominant, amounting to 394 cases. Maximum cases (281) were in the age
group of 18 to 35 years. Female predominance was seen in the study
population. It was observed that unmarried people (294) had high incidence of
poisoning as compared to married people (150). Most of the cases admitted in
ICU were from south zone (204) which had a population of 2,328,950 as
compared to central (129) and north (111) zones of Kashmir that had a
population of 1,250,173 and 2,573,169 respectively.
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