From: Admission to an adult intensive care unit for poisoning: a review of 230 cases
Causes of poisoning | Number | Recovered | Died | Agent death rate (%) | Total death rate (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drugs | 123 | 114 | 9 | 7.3 | 4 |
Organophosphate | 46 | 44 | 2 | 4.4 | 0.87 |
Carbon monoxide | 30 | 28 | 2 | 6.66 | 0.87 |
Methyl alcohol | 14 | 8 | 6 | 42.8 | 2.6 |
Botulism | 8 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 0.87 |
Mushrooms | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16.6 | 0.34 |
Sulphur | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
Lithium | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Total | 230 | 208 | 22 | - | 9.55 |