[Acute poisoning with cardiovascular drugs: data from Acute Poisoning Ward in Tarnów].
In this paper an analysis of poisonings with cardiovascular drugs treated in the II Ward of Internal Diseases and Acute Poisonings in Tarnów, in the years from 1996 to 2001, is presented. In 6 years 66 patients were treated (4.5% of all treated toxicological cases). The most frequent kind of drugs were antihypertensive drugs (44 cases), mainly beta-blockers--17 cases. No fatalities were observed. Suicidal poisoning with propafenone in 22-year-old man is presented.
II Oddział Chorób Wewnetrznych i Ostrych Zatruć Szpital Wojewódzki im. św. Łukasza w Tarnowie, 33-100 Tarnów, ul. Lwowska 178 a.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000506:poisoning*; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents