Patients Admitted to Three Spanish Intensive Care Units for Poisoning: Type of Poisoning, Mortality, and Functioning of Prognostic Scores Commonly Used

Table 1

Basic demographic data.

Age
Type of poisoning
Drug overdose	92 (77.3%)
Alcohol	20 (16.8%)
Caustics	11 (9.2%)
Attempted suicide	78.3%
Glasgow Coma Scale at admission
Mechanical ventilation at admission	69.7%
APACHE-II
APACHE-III
SAPS-3
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3	26.98%
(general equation)
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3	27.78%
(Southern Europe, Mediterranean equation)
Predicted mortality by APACHE-II	7.57%
Predicted mortality by APACHE-III	8.15%
ICU mortality	5.9%
Hospital mortality	6.7%

patients (1.7%) had ingested drug overdose and caustics. 9 patients (7.6%) had ingested drug overdose and alcohol.
Note. Quantitative variables are expressed as mean ± standard deviation and median with interquartile range in brackets.