[Reliability and application of protocols and procedures to be followed in the treatment of scorpion stings in Morocco].

This works investigates the reliability of scorpion stings treatment adopted by the Moroccan Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center and its application at the provincial level hospital in Kelaa Des Sraghna. The study was based on a sample of 984 cases reviewed from the hospitalization records from this establishment. The results of the distribution of patients according to the level of severity of the cases showed that the Class II category represents 67.45% (n=518 cases) and Class III represents 8.33% (n=64 cases). Although patients ranked in Class I should not be hospitalized, the study found that 24.22% of the cases recorded during the study period belong to this category of patients. Among the 186 cases registered in Class I, 8.06% (n=15) displayed clinical signs; this implies a problem in the classification of these patients. However, the study of the correlation between the classification of those admitted and their respective clinical signs and symptoms revealed that those clinical indicators corresponded well to the categories in which patients were placed. Moreover, the study showed that the evolution of patients depends significantly on the distress signals (Class III) and on some signs indicated severity: priapism, sweating and vomiting (Class II).