Kind and Estimated Stocking Amount of Antidotes for Initial Treatment for Acute Poisoning at Emergency Medical Centers in Korea
| Autor: | Hoon Lim, Kyoung Soo Lim, Seung Mok Ryoo, Bum Jin Oh, Won Chul Kim, Chang Hwan Sohn |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Emergency Medical Services Pralidoxime Databases Factual medicine.medical_treatment Antidotes Poison control Stocking Epidemiology Republic of Korea medicine Emergency medical services Humans Antidote business.industry Poisoning General Medicine Emergency department medicine.disease Emergency & Critical Care Medicine Acute toxicity Acute Disease Original Article Medical emergency Stock business Emergency Service Hospital medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Korean Medical Science |
| ISSN: | 1598-6357 1011-8934 |
| Popis: | Antidotes for toxicological emergencies can be life-saving. However, there is no nationwide estimation of the antidotes stocking amount in Korea. This study tried to estimate the quantities of stocking antidotes at emergency department (ED). An expert panel of clinical toxicologists made a list of 18 emergency antidotes. The quantity was estimated by comparing the antidote utilization frequency in a multicenter epidemiological study and the nation-wide EDs' data of National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS). In an epidemiological study of 11 nationwide EDs from January 2009 to December 2010, only 92 (1.9%) patients had been administered emergency antidotes except activated charcoal among 4,870 cases of acute adult poisoning patients. Comparing with NEDIS data, about 1,400,000 patients visited the 124 EDs nationwide due to acute poisoning and about 103,348 adult doses of the 18 emergency antidotes may be required considering poisoning severity score. Of these, 13,224 (1.9%) adult doses of emergency antidotes (575 of atropine, 144 of calcium gluconate or other calcium salts, 2,587 of flumazenil, 3,450 of N-acetylcysteine, 5,893 of pralidoxime, 287 of hydroxocobalamin, 144 of sodium nitrite, and 144 of sodium thiosulfate) would be needed for maintaining the present level of initial treatment with emergency antidotes at EDs in Korea. Graphical Abstract |
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