ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS

ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS

Ethanol intoxications are frequent in children, due to the ubiquitous presence of this substance and can result in serious metabolic phenomena, with important, often irreversible sequelae. Starting from the incidence and the severe forms of acute ethyl alcohol intoxication in children, we conducte...

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Main Authors: Cătălin Corneliu Stemate, Coriolan Emil Ulmeanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Amaltea Medical Publishing House 2018-09-01
Series:Romanian Medical Journal
Subjects:
ethyl alcohol
substances of abuse
teenager
drugs
Online Access:https://revistemedicale.amaltea.ro/Romanian_MEDICAL_Journal/Revista_MEDICALA_ROMANA-2018-Nr.3/RMJ_2018_3_Art-08.pdf
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spelling doaj-4ff2817bb866494eb5355fc01edf6fcf2021-09-02T13:15:18ZengAmaltea Medical Publishing HouseRomanian Medical Journal1220-54782069-606X2018-09-0165320220510.37897/RMJ.2018.3.8ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONSCătălin Corneliu Stemate0Coriolan Emil Ulmeanu1Spitalul Clinic de Urgenţă pentru Copii „Grigore Alexandrescu“, BucureştiSpitalul Clinic de Urgenţă pentru Copii „Grigore Alexandrescu“, BucureştiEthanol intoxications are frequent in children, due to the ubiquitous presence of this substance and can result in serious metabolic phenomena, with important, often irreversible sequelae. Starting from the incidence and the severe forms of acute ethyl alcohol intoxication in children, we conducted a trial that focused on voluntary acute ethyl alcohol intoxications associated with drugs in patients hospitalized in a pediatric toxicology centre between 2005 and 2009. The association ethyl alcohol-drugs or psychoactive substances occured in 10% of the severe ethyl alcohol intoxications in teenagers, increasing the severity of intoxication, the depth of the coma and the length of hospitalization.https://revistemedicale.amaltea.ro/Romanian_MEDICAL_Journal/Revista_MEDICALA_ROMANA-2018-Nr.3/RMJ_2018_3_Art-08.pdfethyl alcoholsubstances of abuseteenagerdrugs
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Coriolan Emil Ulmeanu
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Coriolan Emil Ulmeanu
ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
Romanian Medical Journal
ethyl alcohol
substances of abuse
teenager
drugs
author_facet Cătălin Corneliu Stemate
Coriolan Emil Ulmeanu
author_sort Cătălin Corneliu Stemate
title ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
title_short ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
title_full ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
title_fullStr ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
title_full_unstemmed ACUTE INTOXICATION WITH ETHANOL AND MEDICINES – A NEW COMBINATION IN THE ETHIOLOGY OF CHILD INTOXICATIONS
title_sort acute intoxication with ethanol and medicines – a new combination in the ethiology of child intoxications
publisher Amaltea Medical Publishing House
series Romanian Medical Journal
issn 1220-5478
2069-606X
publishDate 2018-09-01
description Ethanol intoxications are frequent in children, due to the ubiquitous presence of this substance and can result in serious metabolic phenomena, with important, often irreversible sequelae. Starting from the incidence and the severe forms of acute ethyl alcohol intoxication in children, we conducted a trial that focused on voluntary acute ethyl alcohol intoxications associated with drugs in patients hospitalized in a pediatric toxicology centre between 2005 and 2009. The association ethyl alcohol-drugs or psychoactive substances occured in 10% of the severe ethyl alcohol intoxications in teenagers, increasing the severity of intoxication, the depth of the coma and the length of hospitalization.
topic ethyl alcohol
substances of abuse
teenager
drugs
url https://revistemedicale.amaltea.ro/Romanian_MEDICAL_Journal/Revista_MEDICALA_ROMANA-2018-Nr.3/RMJ_2018_3_Art-08.pdf
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