Objective: To analyze the characteristics of the drug poisoning.
Methods: In the 25 department of emergency selected hospitals, design questionnaires to register the drug poisoning patients who seeking emergency treatment within one-year period.
Results: Collected 2 612 cases of drug poisoning patients, accounted as 0.31% of the aggregated number of emergency patients at the same time, as well as 23.42% of poisoning patients at the same time. The sexual proportion between males and females was 1:3.45, average age was 30.33 years, and the age groups between 15-34 years were the high potentials. The three top ranking industries were farmers, unemployed ones and services. Amongst the samples, 99.12% of them were exposed by mouth transmission. 84.57% were committed as suicides. The medicines most frequently adopted were 1. antianxity drugs; 2. analgesics antipyretic and antirheumatic drugs; 3. antipsychotropic drugs. Only 1.68% of the drug poisoning patients were diagnosed through blood-medicine.
Conclusion: It is recommended to enhance the administration and education of medicines. To establish monitoring system for drug intoxication and improve the quality of diagnose and treatment of drug poisoning patients.