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The study aimed to characterize cases of unintentional poisoning among children in a pediatric emergency setting.

Unintentional acute poisoning in emergency care: a eight-year retrospective study in a type II hospital in Portugal

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Retrospective study characterizes accidental poisoning cases in children, indicating a need for prevention efforts.

The study aimed to characterize cases of unintentional poisoning among children in a pediatric emergency setting.
Retrospective descriptive analysis of patients under 18 years with accidental poisoning from 2015 to 2022.
Exclusion of intentional poisoning and unconfirmed diagnoses.
Statistical analysis conducted using IBM SPSS® Statistics.
148 patients included with a median age of two years; 89.2% were under five.
67.6% required short-term hospitalization; 6.8% necessitated intensive care with no reported deaths.
Primary toxic agents included medications (44.6% were prescribed to caregivers), recreational drugs, and household products.

Escobar et al. (2026) studied this question.

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