Poisoning deaths in Poland: Types and frequencies reported in Łódź, Kraków, Sosnowiec, Gdańsk, Wrocław and Poznań during 2009-2013.

Objectives: The aim of this study has been to assess the characteristics of acute poisoning deaths in Poland over a period of time 2009-2013.

Material And Methods: The analysis was based on the data obtained from the patient records stored in toxicology departments in 6 cities - Łódź, Kraków, Sosnowiec, Gdańsk, Wrocław and Poznań. Toxicological analyses were routinely performed in blood and/or urine.

Intentional poisoning among elderly people-residents of a large urban agglomeration in Poland.

Poisoning is considered a significant health problem among elderly people in Poland. This report refers to patients treated for poisonings at the Toxicology Unit, Lodz, Poland, during the period 2008-2012. The data to be analyzed were obtained from medical records of elderly people.

[Acute alcohol poisonings among patients in Toxicology Unit, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in the period of time 2007-2012].

Unlabelled: The purpose of the research was to present the analysis of acute alcohol poisonings (ethanol, methanol, ethylene glycol, isopropanol) in Toxicology Unit (TU), Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM), Lódź, Poland.

Materials And Methods: To further analysis were chosen all cases, whose were coded according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision.

Results: There were 10,936 acute poisonings in the analyzed period of time 2007-2012 years, 3,088 of them referred to alcohol poisonings (28%).

[Acute poisonings in Poland during the period 1997-1999. An analysis of files from the Krakow Poison Information Center].

This work analyses the 1997-1999 data received from Polish poison units at Gdańsk, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Poznań, Rzeszów, Tarnów, Sosnowiec, Warszawa, Wrocław on patients hospitalised there and patients treated at other hospitals but consulted by specialists of those centres. The analysis shows that drugs constituted the most frequent cause of the poisonings (over 45% all poisonings). Poisonings with: alcohols accounted for 17.