The Prognostic Factors of Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning in Urmia: A-five-years Cross-sectional Study

Background: Aluminum phosphide is a highly toxic fungicide. It causes such severe adverse effects as cardiac arrhythmias, metabolic acidosis, acute renal failure, shock, and even death. Therefore, this study investigated the prognostic factors of aluminum phosphide poisoning. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all hospitalized patients due to aluminum phosphide poisoning admitted to the poisoning center at Taleghani Hospital, Urmia City, Iran, from 2015 to 2019 were evaluated. The demographics characteristics, clinical findings, and laboratory profiles were retrospectively studied by an investigator-made checklist and evaluated concerning the explored patients’ treatment outcomes. Then, the obtained data were analyzed by descriptive and analytical stat. Conclusion: Such prognostic factors as demographics characteristics, clinical findings, laboratory profiles, and electrolytes could be used as good indices of the severity of toxicity in patients; accordingly, such data are beneficial for the proper management of patients by healthcare providers. Therefore, prognostic factors should be considered in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up stages for these patients.