Kaa E, Gregersen M
Retsmedicinsk Institut, Aarhus Universitet.
Ugeskr Laeger. 1993 Aug 9;155(32):2466-71.
A description is given of trends in the pattern of fatal poisonings examined at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University during the period 1980 through 1989 (638 men and 391 women). These cases comprised 36% of all fatal poisonings in the area during the decade. In more than half of the medicolegally examined cases, death was categorized as accident. In two thirds of the examined cases death was caused by drugs, whereas non-medical substances (alcohol, carbon monoxide etc.) accounted for one third of the deaths. During the ten-year period, a decline was seen in the number of barbiturate-related deaths, whereas the number of deaths caused by analgesics increased. Propoxyphene was the drug found to have caused most deaths during the period, and developments concerning fatal poisonings involving this drug must still be watched closely.
本文描述了1980年至1989年期间在奥胡斯大学法医学系检查的致命中毒模式趋势（638名男性和391名女性）。这些案例占该地区十年间所有致命中毒案例的36%。在超过一半的法医检查案例中，死亡被归类为意外事故。在三分之二的检查案例中，死亡是由药物引起的，而非医疗物质（酒精、一氧化碳等）导致了三分之一的死亡。在这十年期间，巴比妥酸盐相关死亡人数有所下降，而镇痛药导致的死亡人数增加。丙氧芬是该时期发现导致死亡最多的药物，涉及该药物的致命中毒情况仍需密切关注。
