DETECTION, ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF ACUTE ALCOHOL INTOXICATIONS COLLECTED AT EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE “GARIBALDI CENTRO” HOSPITAL IN CATANIA

The study we conducted was highlighted the main clinical aspects of voluntary or accidental acute alcohol intoxication. These intoxication were identified over the five-year period between 2015 and 2019, and we evaluated its pharmacological management by statistical analysis of clinical cases detected at the Emergency Department of “Garibaldi Centro” Hospital in Catania. The extrapolated data showed that acute alcohol intoxications are the main reason of access to the Emergency Department (65%) to which drugs (17%), addicted substances (8%), and other substances (caustics, food, gases and vapours, detergents and soaps, benzene and pesticides, 10%). It has been shown that the most commonly u…