Abstract

Introduction: Seizures is one of importance side effect of Tramadol Poisoning and need to rapid treatment after poisoning. It's necessary to know the prevalence and epidemiology of seizures in patients that poisoned by Tramadol. So we design this study to evaluated prevalence of seizure in tramadol poisoned patients. Material and Method: In this epidemiologic study, we collection data from 42 profile of patient that refer to Ahvaz Razi hospital due to Tramadol poisoning in several last years with sign of seizure. In Accordingly a checklist included patients’ demographic data (age, gender and …), information on patients’, information on poisoning and information on treatment and therapy programs that is filled based on the records. Data analysis was done by SPSS Version 22 software. Result: In this study we evaluated 41 patients with seizure due to Tramadol poisoning. Results shows that average age of 37 patients was between 15-30 years, average age of 3 patients was between 31-45 years and average age of 1patients was between 46-60 years (table 1). Also 33 Patients (80.5%) was male and 8 of them (19.5%) was female. We also founded that 19 patients (46.3%) was addicted and 1 patient was expired so rate of mortality was (2.4%). Conclusion: This data show that seizure due to Tramadol poisoning was common in male more than female and people with age between 15-30 years was high risk to suffer from this side effect after over dose of Tramadol. We suggested that other research design new research with more patients and other variable to evaluated Tramadol poisoning and correlation of seizure with other factors.

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