Publications by authors named "Purificacion Fernandez-Gomez"
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- A study analyzed acute intoxication cases at a hospital in Pontevedra from 2005 to 2008, focusing on the demographics, toxic agents, and outcomes of the patients involved.
- The research included data from 1,893 patients, primarily men with a mean age of 35.6 years, showing highest incident rates on weekends during summer months.
- Most poisonings were due to drugs of abuse (70.4%), primarily ethyl alcohol, while intentional overdoses for suicide attempts accounted for 18.8%; the overall mortality rate was very low at just 0.2%.
Alcohol is the most frequently abused 'addictive substance' that causes serious social problems throughout the world; thus alcoholism is of particular interest in clinical and forensic medicine. Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is a marker of recent alcohol consumption that detects alcohol use reliably over a definite time period. The present paper describes a new method for the determination of EtG in urine.
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