title: [Massive alcoholic poisoning in the emergency department: how many, who, what and how?].
abstract: Alcohol abuse causes numerous medical and social problems. In spite of the decrease of the global consumption of alcohol per capita in Switzerland during the last years, the cases of massive alcoholic poisoning seem increasing in emergency departments. Very few data is available at the moment on this phenomenon. The present article focuses on this problem within the framework of the emergency department of the CHUV. It aims at bringing to light on the sociodemographic and medical characteristics, as well as on the characteristics of the stay of these patients who are admitted with such a problem, to have a global vision of this phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Etudiante en médecine UNIL, Lausanne. Patricia.Neves@unil.ch
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.forename: Natacha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Neuffer
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yersin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D000431:Ethanol / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011041:Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012940:Social Problems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol