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    Consultations For Acute Alcohol Intoxication in A Pediatric Emergency Department

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    This study examined patients seen in a pediatric emergency department for acute alcohol intoxication over a 12-month period in 2007. It found that acute alcohol intoxication accounted for 3.6% of visits for those over age 14, averaging one visit every 3 days. There were no significant differences in consultations between males and females. Consultations predominantly occurred on weekends, holidays, and at night. The study demonstrates the importance of addressing underage and abusive alcohol consumption in today's society given the health and social risks.

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    This study examined patients seen in a pediatric emergency department for acute alcohol intoxication over a 12-month period in 2007. It found that acute alcohol intoxication accounted for 3.6% of visits for those over age 14, averaging one visit every 3 days. There were no significant differences in consultations between males and females. Consultations predominantly occurred on weekends, holidays, and at night. The study demonstrates the importance of addressing underage and abusive alcohol consumption in today's society given the health and social risks.

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    This study examined patients seen in a pediatric emergency department for acute alcohol intoxication over a 12-month period in 2007. It found that acute alcohol intoxication accounted for 3.6% of visits for those over age 14, averaging one visit every 3 days. There were no significant differences in consultations between males and females. Consultations predominantly occurred on weekends, holidays, and at night. The study demonstrates the importance of addressing underage and abusive alcohol consumption in today's society given the health and social risks.

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    Consultations For Acute Alcohol Intoxication in A Pediatric Emergency Department

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    Consultations for acute alcohol intoxication in a pediatric emergency

    department
    Patients arriving in Paediatric Emergency Departments due to alcohol abuse is fairly common.
    The aim of this study is to determine the profile of the patients seen in the emergency room
    for acute ethanol intoxication. Material and method: A descriptive study was performed on
    all patients seen in the emergency department with an acute ethanol intoxication over a 12-
    month period (2007). Patients with accidental poisoning or with related chronic illness were
    excluded.

    This study demonstrates the importance of abusive alcohol consumption among adolescents
    in today's society, especially considering that the IEA not only represents a risk to health, but
    could be an indicator of social problems or even behavioral in the future. It is confirmed that
    the IEA is a relatively frequent reason for consultation of this population group in the
    SEU1,2,5-8 (3.6% of the visits is older than 14 years) and represents an average of One visit
    every 3 days. In addition, it is worth noting the existence of cases in early adolescence
    (between 12 and 14 years), a fact that supports the trend detected in recent years that this
    problem occurs in people more and more young boys.
    As reported by other studies, there are no statistically significant differences in the number of
    consultations according to the sex of the subjects, and the predilection for the weekend,
    holidays and night time is evident.

    It is proven that alcohol produces serious physical, psychological and social effects.
    Remember, also, that it is illegal to consume it before the age of 18. However, everyone
    knows that if a young person wants to drink alcohol, he can do it no matter how much his
    consumption is prohibited. In fact, young people meet in the street and get alcoholic drinks
    without difficulty. Moreover, half of Spanish adolescents do not believe that taking 4 or 5
    drinks during weekends can cause health problems. Although I am aware of the difficulty of
    dealing with this problem, I am afraid that the administrative and health authorities do not
    put much effort into doing so. In my opinion it would be necessary, in the first place, to offer
    young people information about the effects of alcohol intake (I know that some talks are
    given, but I do not know a systematic work in this sense); and, secondly, sanction
    inappropriate behaviors appropriately.
    Health professionals have been denouncing, for a long time, the effects that alcohol can have
    on the health of adolescents, both now and in the future, as their consumption harms their
    brain development and can cause memory and learning problems.

    The consumption of alcohol is associated with conflict in personal and family relationships
    and school failure. Furthermore, under the influence of alcohol, risky behaviors can be
    maintained with serious consequences, such as traffic accidents, sexually transmitted infections
    or unwanted pregnancies

    REFERENCIAS:

     Marcos, N. S., Constantí, V. A., de la Maza, V. T. S., Barcenilla, A. C., Costa, J. M., & Cubells,
    C. L. (2009, February). Consultas por intoxicación etílica aguda en un servicio de urgencias
    pediátricas. In Anales de Pediatría (Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 132-136). Elsevier Doyma

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