TY - JOUR ID - 8136 TI - A Cross Sectional Study of Opioid Poisoning in Children at a Tertiary Center JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology JA - APJMT LA - en SN - 2322-2611 AU - Ghaemi, Nosrat AU - Alikhani, Samaneh AU - Bagheri, Sepideh AU - Sezavar, Majid AD - Associate Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, Faculty of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Pediatrician, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Assistant professor of pediatrics, Faculty of medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Fellowship of Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 115 EP - 118 KW - Children KW - Northeast of Iran KW - Opioid Drugs KW - Poisoning KW - Toxicity DO - 10.22038/apjmt.2016.8136 N2 - Background:Poisoning in children is a world-wide problem and one of the most important reasons for children’s hospital admission. Incidence of toxicity based on cultural and economic characteristics vary in different communities. Methods: All children with proven opioid toxicity who admitted to children emergency ward of Imam Reza hospital of Mashhad through June 2014 to June 2015 were included the study. Age, sex, weight, parent’s educational level and job, causes and kinds of ingested opioid, addiction in family, clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, changes in QT corrected (QTC), and mortality rate were recorded. Finally, all data were analyzed with SPSS. Results: In this study, 126 opioid-intoxicated children were recruited. No significant age difference was seen between genders (P value = 0.24). Parent's educational levels in most cases were low. Addiction to opium was also common among fathers (68.3%). Methadone was the most common agent causing opioid poisoning (52.4%), followed by opium (43.7%). The cause of poisoning was accidental in 58% of patients. The common signs and symptoms were drowsiness (77.8%), miotic pupil (69 %), decreased levels of O2 saturation (67.5%), Bradypnea (37.3%), apnea (27.8%) and convulsions (8.7%). Venous blood gases (VBG) in most cases (69.8%) was abnormal, leukocytosis (26.2%), hyperglycemia (11.1%), hyponatremia (9.5%), hypernatremia (5.6%), increases in distance of QT in Electrocardiography (2.4%) were seen. Conclusion:Opioid poisonings are severe and life-threatening in children. Methadone was the most common cause of poisoning in more than the half of cases (52.4%). Poisonings were due to low parental knowledge about methadone poisoning and careless storage of methadone at their home. UR - https://apjmt.mums.ac.ir/article_8136.html L1 - https://apjmt.mums.ac.ir/article_8136_2d14b19e7643c67673759df4038afd41.pdf ER -