Prognosis of Elderly Patients With Acute Poisoning.

NCT ID: NCT05185570

Last Updated: 2022-01-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-31

Study Completion Date

2022-10-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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The elderly are different from younger adults in many aspects. There are age related physiological changes. They have a higher incidence of comorbidities and use of many medications for chronic conditions, both of which make the elderly more susceptible to acute poisoning and its related consequences.

Although the elderly form a relatively small proportion of those admitted to hospital for acute self-poisoning, the poisoning in them is often more serious, complications are more frequent and a fatal outcome is more common.

The presence of multiple physical, social, and psychiatric problems, with possible difficulties in the diagnosis of poisoning make the management of the elderly more complicated than that of younger poisoned patients. There are three main difficulties in diagnosing acute poisoning in the elderly. At first, it may not be easily obvious that the patient has taken an overdose. Secondly, the presence of pre-existing diseases may obscure the clinical picture and finally, the drug may cause physical signs that similar to common problems of old age.

Conditions

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Acute Poisoning

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

all patients more than 60 years will be included.

Exclusion Criteria

younger than 60 years.
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sohag University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Abeer hussien Mohamed

Teaching assistant in Forensic Medicine &Clinical Toxicology Department Faculty of Medicine

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

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Abeer H Mohammed

Role: CONTACT

01019585267

Other Identifiers

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Soh-Med-21-12-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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