Analysis on structural characteristics of poison system in acute poisoning of Guangxi

A total of 6004 cases of acute poisoning with 532 kinds of related poisons from 63 hospitals were analyzed. According to the classification of pharmaceutical, pesticide, chemical, animal, plant and other poisons, the numbers of poison categories were 217, 148, 61, 34, 36 and 36 kinds accounting for 40.8%, 27.8%, 11.5%, 6.4%, 6.8%, 6.7% of total number of poisons respectively. According to the case count, they were divided into three groups of low, medium and high morbidity and their poison numbers were 462, 59 and 11 kinds accounting for 86.8%, 11.1%, 2.1% of total number of poisons respectively. According to the types of poisons, they were divided into five groups of poisoning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years and their poison numbers were 320, 91, 34, 33 and 54 kinds accounting for 60.2%, 17.1%, 6.4%, 6.2%, 10.1% of total number of poisons respectively. According to the time of poisoning, they were divided into three groups of 1-year, discontinuous and perennial poisoning and their poison numbers were 320, 158 and 54 kinds accounting for 60.2%, 29.7%, 10.1% of total number of poisons respectively. Key words: Acute poisoning; Poison classificstion