In the 10-year period 2009-2018, alcohol surrogates intoxication was only 0.09% (18 patients) of total poisoning cases (20,266), but during the study period of 2020 increased to 3.4% (32 patients of 946 poisoning cases). Results: The alarming dynamics of a significant increase in the number of alcohol surrogates, primarily methanol poisoning, was revealed.
Methods: We conducted a comparative analysis of the database of the Poison Center in Baku during the 9 months of the pandemic period (20 March - 21 December 2020) with the data of the same period in 2019 and the previous decade (2009-2018). The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the toxic-epidemiological situation in Azerbaijan. ABSTRACT Objective: The global pandemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has been a serious stress test for healthcare systems in many countries, with a significant impact on the structure and number of acute chemical poisonings.
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