Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran

OBJECTIVE: Environmental hazards, including poisons, can cause irreparable effects and even fatal for children. Poisoning in children is common and serious, but often is preventable and treatable. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of drugs and chemical toxicity leading to apnea. In additio...

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Autores principales: GHOLAMI, Narges, ALWASABI, Fathi, FARNAGHI, Fariba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883871
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ALWASABI, Fathi
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description OBJECTIVE: Environmental hazards, including poisons, can cause irreparable effects and even fatal for children. Poisoning in children is common and serious, but often is preventable and treatable. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of drugs and chemical toxicity leading to apnea. In addition, we detected type of drug that induced apnea among children. MATERIALS & METHODS: In a retrospective cross-sectional study from Apr 2012 to Apr 2013, data of all hospitalized drug-induced Apnea in children were collected through hospital records. RESULTS: The most common cause of drug toxicity was methadone opium, baclofen and heroin (74%,13%,5%,2%). The mortality rate was 3.1%; all of them due to methadone poisoning. CONCLUSION: There was a high prevalence of Methadone poisoning and apnea in children. Methadone poisoning should be considered in apnea.
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spelling pubmed-55823542017-10-01 Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran GHOLAMI, Narges ALWASABI, Fathi FARNAGHI, Fariba Iran J Child Neurol Original Article OBJECTIVE: Environmental hazards, including poisons, can cause irreparable effects and even fatal for children. Poisoning in children is common and serious, but often is preventable and treatable. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of drugs and chemical toxicity leading to apnea. In addition, we detected type of drug that induced apnea among children. MATERIALS & METHODS: In a retrospective cross-sectional study from Apr 2012 to Apr 2013, data of all hospitalized drug-induced Apnea in children were collected through hospital records. RESULTS: The most common cause of drug toxicity was methadone opium, baclofen and heroin (74%,13%,5%,2%). The mortality rate was 3.1%; all of them due to methadone poisoning. CONCLUSION: There was a high prevalence of Methadone poisoning and apnea in children. Methadone poisoning should be considered in apnea. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5582354/ /pubmed/28883871 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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GHOLAMI, Narges
ALWASABI, Fathi
FARNAGHI, Fariba
Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title_full Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title_fullStr Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title_short Drug-Induced Apnea in Children Admitted to Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran
title_sort drug-induced apnea in children admitted to loghman hakim hospital, tehran, iran
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883871
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