[Acute alcohol poisonings among patients in Toxicology Unit, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in the period of time 2007-2012].

UNLABELLED: The purpose of the research was to present the analysis of acute alcohol poisonings (ethanol, methanol, ethylene glycol, isopropanol) in Toxicology Unit (TU), Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM), Lódź, Poland.

MATERIALS AND

METHODS

To further analysis were chosen all cases, whose were coded according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision.

RESULTS

There were 10,936 acute poisonings in the analyzed period of time 2007-2012 years, 3,088 of them referred to alcohol poisonings (28%). The largest group of patients included cases with ethanol intoxication (2,883 subjects), the second and third one-cases with methanol and ethylene glycol poisonings (99 and 98 respectively), 8 cases were poisoned with isopropanol. The largest group of patients includes cases at age less than 30 years. Patients at age above 60 years formed the lowest group among the total number of poisonings. Most of the admitted cases were men (2,417 patients) and cases hospitalized due to ethanol abuseladdiction (93%). Ethylene glycol poisonings constituted the leading cause of deaths (10 subjects).

CONCLUSIONS

The study shows, that intoxications with alcohols are a big problem in NIOM and the number of alcohol poisonings markedly increased in the years 2007-2012.