An Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Poisoned Patients Admitted to the Sina Educational Hospital Tabriz-Iran

Firoozi, Neda; Ostadi, Ali; Dawoodi, Arefeh; Banagozar Mohammadi, Ali; Heris, Jawad Ahmadian; Rezazadeh, Hassan

doi:10.22038/apjmt.2023.21832

An Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Poisoned Patients Admitted to the Sina Educational Hospital Tabriz-Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Neda Firoozi ¹

Ali Ostadi ²

Arefeh Dawoodi ³

Ali Banagozar Mohammadi ⁴

Jawad Ahmadian Heris ⁵

Hassan Rezazadeh ⁶

¹ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

² Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Medicine Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz,Iran

³ Department of Medical Surgical Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

⁵ Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pediatric Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

⁶ Tabriz university of medical sciences

https://doi.org/10.22038/apjmt.2023.21832

Abstract

Background: Alcohol poisoning causes several clinical signs and symptoms. The present study was carry out to examine the epidemiology and characteristics of poisoned patients with alcohol, who were treated at the Sina hospital Tabriz in Iran.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical features and laboratory tests in alcohol poisoning.
Methods: In the current expressive cross-sectional report, during 2018-2020 details were obtained over referring to all 91 alcohol poisoned patients’ files. The data were obtained based on the time interval between poisoning and time of admission to hospital. The data were then analyzed through SPSS software and descriptive statistics.
Results: All over this period, 91 cases of alcohol-poisoned patients were hospitalized, out of which 81 patients (90%) were male and 9 patients (10%) were female. Mostly ethanol was used in poisoning (68.7%) and methanol (28%). 56% of alcohol poisoned patients used alcohol for euphoria, 33.3% used it for suicide, and 10.7% used it recreationally. Most poisoning symptoms occurred between 6 to 12 hours after poisoning. Neurological symptoms occurred among 70 patients (76.9%), 52 cases (57%) had gastrointestinal symptoms, and 19 patients (20.8%) had visual symptoms.
Conclusion: Most of poisoned patients were men below the age of 30 years and unemployed. Alcohol consumption for euphoria were more common among people with higher education occasionally for recreation and those with high school education level were for suicide to get rid of problems from living environment. Particular attention of health authorities should be directed towards alcohol drinking prevention measures as well as production and availability of surrogate alcohols in the community.

Keywords

Alcohol

Complications

Poisoning

Epidemiology

Iran

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