Problem in the rehabilitation of patients with acute chemical poisonings in the toxicological hospital

: Follow-ups of 693 patients treated at the rehabilitation toxicological department for poisonings with psychopharmacological agents (n=549), cauterants (n=72), and opium narcotics (n=72) were summarized. Moreover, factors, such as the development of complications and the prehospitalization psychosomatic status of patients, influenced the length stay in a unit. Treatment of such patients should be aimed at eliminating at once a few causes that negatively affect the course of recovery for which it is expedient to use the methods of physicochemical hemotherapy, mesodiencephalic modulation, intestinal lavage, and hyperbaric oxygenation.