Initial clinical and laboratory parameters triaging non-pharmaceutical acute pediatric poisoned patients for potential adverse outcomes: a three-year retrospective study.

ABSTRACT: Identifying high-risk pediatric patients with non-pharmaceutical poisoning is crucial to avoid prospective complications and decrease the evident hospital economic burden. Although the preventive strategies have been well studied, determining the early predictors for poor outcomes remains limited. Therefore, this study focused on the initial clinical and laboratory parameters as a triage of non-pharmaceutical poisoned children for potential adverse outcomes taking the causative substance effects into account. This retrospective cohort study included pediatric patients admitted to Tanta University Poison Control Center from January 2018 to December 2020. Sociodemographic, toxicological, clinical, and laboratory data were retrieved from the patient's files. Adverse outcomes were categorized

SUBMITTER: El-Sarnagawy GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972823 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature