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A Review on Management of Drug and Chemical Poisoning in Single Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Ahmed Alzahrani*, Abdulaziz Yhya Asiri

Pediatric poisoning is a common medical emergencies worldwide that leads to morbidity and mortality. Medications and chemical substances were the leading cause of poisoning. Yet limited research exists on this issue in Saudi Arabia. The chart related to retrospective study has been done for all acute pediatric poisoning cases in children those who are admitted in department of emergency of East Jeddah Hospital. From those departments very less data was obtained and analyzed for different characteristics like demography, poisoning type, and how they have managed to overcome the condition. During the procedure, nearly 69 pediatric poisoning cases whose condition is at acute stage are admitted in the emergency room at East Jeddah Hospital. Among all the cases, majorly male cases were highly affected than females’ cases and also the age of the affected patients was just below 5. Unintentional poisoning occurrence was more common than the intentional poisonings. This further lead to the importance of parental supervision and how preventive measures are considered. Along with this, the intake of excessive drug dosage of medicines prescribed lead to poisoning and medicines like Analgesics such as paracetamol is the most included drug classification associated with poisoning which was followed by anticonvulsants and other central nervous system acting medicines are observed. This review study underscores the burden of pediatric poisoning and the condition is acute in Saudi Arabia, with implications for public health interventions and preventive strategies. Our review involves the necessity to understand the how frequently the drug should be prescribed and given to the patients, how we are managed to cure the poisoning, and adverse effects of pediatric poisoning patients whatever they faced during the treatment procedure their intervention and preventive measures we took during the treatment procedure.