Arterial Blood Gas Analysis and the Outcome of Treatment in Tricyclic Antidepressants Poisoned Patients with Benzodiazepine Coingestion

Table 1

Demographic data of the studied patients in TCA only and TCA plus benzodiazepine ingestion groups.

	TCA ()	TCA + BZD ()	value
Gender
Male	29	41	0.04^*
Female	41	29
Age (years)	26.04 ± 7.6	28.97 ± 11.1	0.07^**
Frequency and type of the abused TCA
Amitriptyline	25	31	0.058^*
Nortriptyline	29	25
Imipramine	7	8
Clomipramine	9	6
Smoking status
Smokers	17	22	0.34^*
Nonsmokers	53	48
Estimated TCA ingested amount (mg)^***
<500	21	17	0.40^*
500–1000	30	38
>1000	19	15

Chi-square test; ^**independent -test; ^***according to patients’ history; TCA: tricyclic antidepressant; BZD: benzodiazepine; results are presented as number of patients or mean ± SD where appropriate.