One of the most important issues facing public health is mortality after acute poisoning. The current study intends to evaluate the trends in poisoning-related deaths in a tertiary care facility and investigate the results of autopsies on these deaths. This retrospective study, which is based on autopsies, was carried out with institutional ethical committee approval. Version 20 of the SPSS software was used to evaluate and analyze descriptive data in order to investigate the distribution of cases among various age groups, genders, and toxic chemical kinds. A total of 94 cases were recorded. The majority were young adults of 21-30 years (36.2%). Males were predominantly involved (58.5%). A majority (91.5%) were living in the rural areas. Most of the patients were hospitalized (72.3%). 98.9% of the dead bodies showed no sign of decomposition but showed signs of cyanosis. Congested gastric mucosa was seen in 37.2% of the cases. Also, 37.2% of the cases showed congested gastric mucosa with a garlicky smell. In most cases, the poisonous compound was aluminum phosphide (70.2%). Suicidal deaths contributed to the higher frequency of the cases (91.5%). The findings imply that recommendations for the proper handling, storage, transportation, and selling of poisonous compounds should be defined while taking into account the groups of young teenagers without considering their sexual orientation.
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