<strong>Introduction:</strong> <span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Petroleum ingestion is a health pro...<strong>Introduction:</strong> <span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Petroleum ingestion is a health problem in Africa and can be responsible for significant mortality. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objectives: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Improving the management </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">of accidental petroleum ingestion in children, describe the socio-demographic</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> characteristics, clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary profile of children hospitalized for accidental ingestion of petroleum and identify the factors asso</span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ciated with the occurrence of petroleum pneumopathy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Me</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">thods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We conducted a cross-sectional analytical study with retrospective collection from January 2016 to December 2015, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> in 24 months in the Pediatric Intensive Care and Infant Pediatrics departments at the University Hospital of Brazzaville. We included children who accidentally ingested petroleum. The variables studied were epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, radiological and evolutionary. The statistical tests used were Pearson’s Chi</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and Odds ratio. The materiality threshold was set at 5%. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Out of 8013 children hospitalized, 78 (1%) had accidentally ingested petroleum, including 49 (62.8%) boys and 29 (37.3%) girls with an average age of 20 months. They were between 13 and 30 months old n = 44 (56.4%). The mothers were between 25 and 35 years old n = 49 (62.8%), no profession n = 31 (39.7%) and secondary </span><span展开更多
文摘<strong>Introduction:</strong> <span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Petroleum ingestion is a health problem in Africa and can be responsible for significant mortality. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objectives: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Improving the management </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">of accidental petroleum ingestion in children, describe the socio-demographic</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> characteristics, clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary profile of children hospitalized for accidental ingestion of petroleum and identify the factors asso</span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ciated with the occurrence of petroleum pneumopathy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Me</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">thods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We conducted a cross-sectional analytical study with retrospective collection from January 2016 to December 2015, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> in 24 months in the Pediatric Intensive Care and Infant Pediatrics departments at the University Hospital of Brazzaville. We included children who accidentally ingested petroleum. The variables studied were epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, radiological and evolutionary. The statistical tests used were Pearson’s Chi</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and Odds ratio. The materiality threshold was set at 5%. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Out of 8013 children hospitalized, 78 (1%) had accidentally ingested petroleum, including 49 (62.8%) boys and 29 (37.3%) girls with an average age of 20 months. They were between 13 and 30 months old n = 44 (56.4%). The mothers were between 25 and 35 years old n = 49 (62.8%), no profession n = 31 (39.7%) and secondary </span><span
