Poisoning Treatment Centre Admissions Following Acute Incidents Involving Pesticides
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Toxicology
- Vol. 7 (3) , 255-258
- https://doi.org/10.1177/096032718800700304
Abstract
1 Adult hospital admissions following acute exposures to pesticides are very uncommon and are more often due to parasuicide than to accidents. 2 Most accidental pesticide incidents are work-related. 3 Males are more likely to be involved than females (2.9:1). 4 Life-threatening and fatal consequences developed in 24% of 54 incidents. 5 Of the 10 fatalities, eight were caused by paraquat, eight were due to parasuicide and two to non-work related accidents.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: