Karaarslan Bekir, Karapirli Mustafa, Kandemir Eyup, Kucuker Hudaverdi, Gurler Mukaddes, Ince Cengiz Haluk, Akyol Omer
Department of Forensic Medicine, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep Universitesi Kampus alani, Tip Fak. Dekanligi, Sehitkamil, 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey.
J Forensic Sci. 2013 Nov;58(6):1563-7. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12189. Epub 2013 Jul 18.
We aimed to obtain an outline of the nature and number of fatal poisonings which still appear to affect widely the population in Turkey. A total of 5921 forensic autopsies were performed between 2007 and 2011 in Ankara and nearby cities and 366 of them were fatal poisonings (219 male, 147 female). Most of the cases were between 41 and 60 years old (n = 84). Most of the fatalities were reported during winter months (48.1%). Carbon monoxide exposure was the most common reason (66.7%) within all the causes followed by medicine and narcotics (13.9%). Postmortem blood alcohol concentrations in ethyl and methyl alcohol poisonings were 385.1 ± 61.9 and 206.8 ± 138.9 mg/dL, respectively. The most common location of deaths was home (71.3%). Fatal poisonings have been a growing global problem because of some shortcomings about the socioeconomic conditions and increasing illicit drug abuse. The level of education, socioeconomic conditions, and legal approaches are very important for the prevention fatal poisonings.
我们旨在勾勒出致命中毒的性质和数量概况，这些中毒现象似乎仍在广泛影响着土耳其民众。2007年至2011年期间，在安卡拉及其附近城市共进行了5921例法医尸检，其中366例为致命中毒（男性219例，女性147例）。大多数病例年龄在41至60岁之间（n = 84）。大多数死亡报告发生在冬季月份（48.1%）。在所有死因中，一氧化碳中毒是最常见的原因（66.7%），其次是药物和麻醉品中毒（13.9%）。乙醇和甲醇中毒的死后血液酒精浓度分别为385.1±61.9和206.8±138.9mg/dL。最常见的死亡地点是家中（71.3%）。由于社会经济状况存在一些缺陷以及非法药物滥用现象不断增加，致命中毒已成为一个日益严重的全球问题。教育水平、社会经济状况和法律手段对于预防致命中毒非常重要。
