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Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused global changes that affect the daily life of the world's population, with a direct impact on individuals’ physical and mental health as well as on their social and recreational habits. METHODS: This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the demograp...

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Autores principales: Caballero-Bermejo, A.F., Ortega-Pérez, J., Frontera-Juan, G., Homar-Amengual, C., Barceló-Martín, B., Puiguriguer-Ferrando, J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier España, S.L.U. and Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI). 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rce.2022.02.003
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author Caballero-Bermejo, A.F.
Ortega-Pérez, J.
Frontera-Juan, G.
Homar-Amengual, C.
Barceló-Martín, B.
Puiguriguer-Ferrando, J.
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Ortega-Pérez, J.
Frontera-Juan, G.
Homar-Amengual, C.
Barceló-Martín, B.
Puiguriguer-Ferrando, J.
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused global changes that affect the daily life of the world's population, with a direct impact on individuals’ physical and mental health as well as on their social and recreational habits. METHODS: This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients attended to for acute poisoning in a hospital emergency department (ED) at three different periods of time: pre-pandemic (2019), after strict lockdown of the population in Spain (2020), and post-pandemic (2021). We analyzed 2 months (June and July) in each period. RESULTS: A total of 1,182 cases of acute poisoning were included. Compared to the pre-pandemic period, during lockdown, the number of patients with acute poisoning decreased (2019: 1.9% vs. 2020: 1.5%; p<.01); the ratio of men to women increased (2.0 vs. 1.4; p=.02); and the mean age of patients increased (2019: 31.4 vs. 2020: 41.3; p<.001), a trend which continued in 2021 (38.3). Poisoning with suicidal intention also increased during the pandemic (2019: 8.71% vs. 2020: 21.0%; p<.01) whereas poisonings with a recreational intention declined (2019: 76.1% vs. 2020: 62.0%; p<.01) with a non-significant increase in 2021 (69.0%, p=.07). CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic generated clinical and epidemiological changes in the acute poisonings attended to in a hospital emergency department during the various phases of the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-88607072022-02-22 Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad Caballero-Bermejo, A.F. Ortega-Pérez, J. Frontera-Juan, G. Homar-Amengual, C. Barceló-Martín, B. Puiguriguer-Ferrando, J. Rev Clin Esp Original Breve BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused global changes that affect the daily life of the world's population, with a direct impact on individuals’ physical and mental health as well as on their social and recreational habits. METHODS: This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients attended to for acute poisoning in a hospital emergency department (ED) at three different periods of time: pre-pandemic (2019), after strict lockdown of the population in Spain (2020), and post-pandemic (2021). We analyzed 2 months (June and July) in each period. RESULTS: A total of 1,182 cases of acute poisoning were included. Compared to the pre-pandemic period, during lockdown, the number of patients with acute poisoning decreased (2019: 1.9% vs. 2020: 1.5%; p<.01); the ratio of men to women increased (2.0 vs. 1.4; p=.02); and the mean age of patients increased (2019: 31.4 vs. 2020: 41.3; p<.001), a trend which continued in 2021 (38.3). Poisoning with suicidal intention also increased during the pandemic (2019: 8.71% vs. 2020: 21.0%; p<.01) whereas poisonings with a recreational intention declined (2019: 76.1% vs. 2020: 62.0%; p<.01) with a non-significant increase in 2021 (69.0%, p=.07). CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic generated clinical and epidemiological changes in the acute poisonings attended to in a hospital emergency department during the various phases of the pandemic. Elsevier España, S.L.U. and Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI). 2022 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8860707/ /pubmed/35221351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rce.2022.02.003 Text en © 2022 Elsevier España, S.L.U. and Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI). All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Caballero-Bermejo, A.F.
Ortega-Pérez, J.
Frontera-Juan, G.
Homar-Amengual, C.
Barceló-Martín, B.
Puiguriguer-Ferrando, J.
Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title_full Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title_fullStr Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title_full_unstemmed Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title_short Intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. De la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
title_sort intoxicaciones agudas atendidas en un servicio de urgencias. de la prepandemia a la nueva normalidad
topic Original Breve
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rce.2022.02.003
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