European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Background:  Death due to acute poisoning is one of the significant health challenges to cope with. It is imperative to know the death victims’ pattern due to acute poisoning to prepare the relevant preventive and remedial measures. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the pattern of the dead victims of acute poisoning in a tertiary care center. Material & Methods: The study was carried out on 868 patients after obtaining permission from institutional ethical committee permission. Patients were selected from the age group of 20 to 80 years. They were brought to the emergency department in associated with the Department of forensic medicine. The patients were brought in alive or death conduction in emergency department. All the patients’ sociodemographic status, type of poisoning, poisoning taken accidental or suicidal, live or death patients was noted. Statically analysis was done by using SPSS 21.0. Results: This study on was carried out on 868 acute poisoning patients after taking permission from institute ethical committee. As per this study majority of the patients were male (78.11%) As per the age group of the patients majority of the patients under 20 to 30 (34.21%) As per the sociodemographic status of acute poisoning patients most are the patients are form rural area (66.01%), Occupation most of the patients were students (37.78%), marital status, and single (37.67%) As per the medical history of a patients majority of the patients were having no medical history followed by neurological disorders (3.68%) and psychiatric history (2.53%) There are many causes to take poison by many people due to personal regions. As per the study majority is of the patients got acute poisoning due to drug over dose (28.57%) poison due to commit suicidal (67.85%) live (54.95%) followed by 45.73% dead patients respectively As per the live or dead patient, majority of the patients were died due to drug over dose (51.02%). Conclusion: The results suggest that young adolescent groups mostly affected with poisonings. Patients in rural area, and students had suicidal tendency with drug over dosage poisoning and death was observed in this study.