Active clinical trials for "Poisoning"

This study investigated the maternal and fetal effects during performance of CSEA in the left lateral decubitus and sitting positions in obese pregnant women undergoing elective cesarean section.

An Open-Label, Randomized Pilot Study Comparing the Safety of a Single Dose of TNX-1300 to Usual Care (UC) Alone for the Treatment of Signs and Symptoms of Acute Cocaine Intoxication in Male Emergency Department (ED) Subjects

According to the World Health Organization pesticide poisoning is a major health problem due to the millions of cases annually occurring worldwide. Farmers have a particularly high risk of pesticide poisoning because of their work involving pesticide use to protect crops. The majority of pesticide poisonings occur in developing countries. On a short term it is not realistic to reduce farmers' use of pesticides significantly because it would require that secure and cost-effective alternatives are introduced. This is a lengthy process, which should undoubtedly be supported. However, it becomes as important to make sure that farmers can protect themselves from pesticide exposure meanwhile. Use of personal protective equipment can minimize pesticide exposure on farmers' bodies and consequently reduce their risk of pesticide poisoning. However, the sparse research identified through a systematic literature review shows that we are not in a position to give recommendations on what personal protective equipment farmers should protect themselves with against pesticide exposure suitable to their specific conditions. The purpose of the present study is to examine factors that influence farmers' use of personal protective equipment during their work with organophosphates and, based on this examine the ability of locally adapted personal protective equipment to reduce their organophosphate exposure. The hypothesis is that farmers working in locally adapted personal protective equipment have less acute organophosphate poisoning symptoms, a higher plasma cholinesterase level and find it to be a more feasible solution than farmers working in their daily practice wearing. Examining how locally adapted personal protective equipment (onwards referred to as the LAPPE solution) performs in practice implies testing it in an intervention study. A randomized crossover experiment design is chosen partly because fewer farmers have to be recruited since each farmer will act as his own control and partly because the between farmer variation is strongly reduced. The performance of the LAPPE solution will be tested in one experiment and compared to the performance of the same farmers' daily practice wearing (onwards referred to as the DP solution) in another experiment. The LAPPE solution is expected to have a superior performance. The participation sequence (LAPPE/DP or DP/LAPPE) will be randomized. The study will be conducted among farmers in Chitwan, Nepal.

This project is aimed at better understanding how children living in agricultural environments are exposed to pesticides, and how such exposures can be prevented or reduced. The project will develop and implement a community-wide intervention to reduce the transfer of pesticides from the workplace to the home (take home pathway).

The purpose of this study is to examine whether adding an inter-generational component to an existing social network-based lay health advisor intervention increases its effectiveness in mobilizing a Native American community to respond to heavy metal contamination from lead and zinc mining.

ALCOPOP is a prospective cohort study entitled "Predicitve Value of Copeptin in CO-intoxicated Patients". The primary objective of this study is to assess the independent association between early Copeptin and / or Troponin concentrations at presentation at the emergency department with disability-free survival after carbon monoxide (CO) -intoxication. Further secondary aims are to determine the independent association between early postoperative Copeptin and / or Troponin concentrations and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), mortality and long-term neurological outcome. Adult patients with acute CO-intoxication (CO-hemoglobin >10%) will be included. Main exposure will be Copeptin and Troponin concentrations. Primary endpoint will be disability-free survival at 90 days. The investigators assume to include 120 patients in 24 months

The purpose of this study is to access the clinical characteristics and risk factors for neurological sequelae after acute carbon monoxide poisoning.

Acute pediatric poisoning is a common worldwide problematic emergency and represents frequent cause of emergency department admissions throughout the world. In 2017, the 35th Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System referred more than 2 million calls for cases of human exposure to toxic substance, more than 50% of them occurred in children less than 13 years old. Also, about 1030 patients less than 14 years old were acutely intoxicated and presented to the Regina Margherita Hospital in Italy from 2012 to 2017. According to Ain Shams study during the period between 2009 and 2013, acute poisoning presented to Ain Shams Poison Control Center; accounts for an estimated 38,470 case among children less than or equals to 18 years old. In the same age group mentioned above, about 760 cases admitted to Menoufia Poison Control Center during the year 2016, those between 2 and 6 years represented the highest age group. Although pediatric poisoning represents a major and preventable cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, usually there is a great challenge with the management of acute pediatric poisoning due to the fact of difficult history taking, unreliable examination compared with that of an adult, in addition, pediatric patients are usually more vulnerable due to physiological difference between developmental stages. Also, the evident curiosity for the surroundings and the desire to explore and to emulate adults, make children particularly exposed to acute intoxications.

Acute poisoning is a major public health problem all over the world, it causes significant mortality and morbidity. It primarily involves younger populations, with less than 3% of the affected cases being in people aged 60 years or older in most studies. More than half of the intoxication events in the elderly over 65 years old were accidental.

France is one of the European countries with the highest rate of death by suicide, more than 10 400 deaths each year, about 16 people out of 100 000. Although suicide mortality rate tends to fall between 1987 and 2008 the number of suicide attempts (TS) against observed by an upward trend between 2005 and 2010. However, the most important predictor of death by suicide remains the TS. Now these are primarily TS Poisoning Drug-Volunteer (IMV), especially benzodiazepines. These IMV, there have been 16% recurrence in the past year and 21% at 4 years among hospitalized patients. Or a Health Barometer 2005 survey showed that 58% of respondents with a TS over the last 12 months had not been hospitalized. This type of acting out, especially the repeated IMV (IMVr) is underestimated epidemiologically because it is an unknown phenomenon and too little screened by health professionals.