Acute Poisonings in Villa Clara during the first quarter of social isolation by Covid-19

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intoxications, social isolation, Covid-19, carbamazepine

Abstract

Introduction: acute poisoning is a potentially serious health problem and a frequent reason for consultation in hospital emergency departments.
Objectives: to analyze the behavior of acute intoxications in Villa Clara Province during the months of March, April and May, the first months of the new coronavirus in Cuba.
Methods: a descriptive, retrospective and comparative study was carried out between 2019 and 2020, the universe was taken as the telephone consultations attended at the Toxicology Center of Villa Clara in the months of March, April and May 2020, in which it was necessary to confirm the intoxication in the Analytical Toxicology Laboratory.
Results: the processing of biological fluid samples with toxicological interest increased by 26.9% during the first three months of social isolation in the province compared to the same period in 2019. Of the total number of samples with positive results in the months of isolation 69.2% of the patients were for suicidal purposes and in 30.7% consumption of substances of abuse for recreational purposes. In the month of April 2020, 85.7% of positivity was confirmed in the samples analyzed.
Conclusions: the confinement for the confrontation against the coronavirus can be detrimental to mental health and can promote the risk of suicide among the population, a fact evidenced by the analysis of the behavior of the positivity of samples for suicidal purposes in the most critical month in the city of Santa Clara during the first trimester of the new coronavirus pandemic.

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Author Biographies

Mildrey Vales Almodovar, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario "Arnaldo Milián Castro"

Licenciada en Química. Máster en Química Analítica. Máster en Investigación y Desarrollo de Medicamentos. Profesora Auxiliar en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara, Departamento de Toxicología Clínica. Investigadora Agregada.

Merlyn Llerena González, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”

Especialista en I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista en I Grado en Toxicología Clínica. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesora Asistente en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara, Departamento de Toxicología Clínica.

Leonardo Leiva Acebey, Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”

Especialista en I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Máster en Toxicología Clínica. Profesor Asistente en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara, Departamento de Toxicología Clínica. Investigador Agregado.

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2021-11-25

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Vales Almodovar M, Llerena González M, Leiva Acebey L. Acute Poisonings in Villa Clara during the first quarter of social isolation by Covid-19. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2021 Nov. 25 [cited 2025 Jul. 6];16(1):172-9. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/1576

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): January-March

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