title: [Accidents in the home. Acute intoxication by household products].
abstract: During a two month period, the authors gathered data from patients who visited an emergency ward due to acute intoxication by a household product, and they compared the care which those patients required with the other patients suffering from different intoxications. The variables were introduced and analyzed using a SPSS 75.0 statistics package. The emergency ward registered 281 intoxication incidents of which 22 or 8.7% were related to household products. Among the conclusions drawn from this study the authors emphasize that the majority of patients intoxicated by household products were women. Caustic products are involved in the greatest number of incidences, either accidentally swallowed, splashed into eyes or inhaled as gas. The amount of treatment those patients require is less than the treatment required for other intoxications. Their prognostic is good.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urgencias del Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. montamigo@yahoo.es
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amigó Tadín
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nogué Xarau
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006795:Household Products / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011041:Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D055815:Young Adult