Multidisciplinary meetings determining the imputability of xenobiotics in causes of death : What contribution to pharmacovigilance data?

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PURPOSE: In case of xenobiotics induced toxic deaths analyzed at the university hospital of Rennes, a multidisplinary team of forensic analysts, toxicologists, anatomopathologists and pharmacologists assess xenobiotics' contribution to the death.

METHODS: A death contribution score (SCRIM) is collectively established during meetings for each death involving xenobiotic drugs. Graded between 1 and 6, lower was this score, more certain was the imputability. Among deaths with the highest imputability, drug poisonings were isolated.

RESULTS: Analysis of 266 deaths presented at meetings over the period 2010-2017 highlight a lot of drug medicine poisonings (60%). The main classes implicated are: opioid substitution treatments (24%) followed by anxiolytics (23%), antidepressants (16%), legal opioids (16%) and antipsychotics (14%). Analysis of these cases by Rennes regional pharmacovigilance center permits to obtain a qualitative signal by establishing a local overview of the main risk classes but also to highlight a specific signal, in particular for oxycodone and antihistamines.

CONCLUSIONS: This multidisciplinary approach shows that a majority of toxic deaths are attributed to drugs. Mortality attributed to oxycodone and antihistamines is a specific signal that should be closely monitored.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

Therapie - 75(2020), 5 vom: 10. Sept., Seite 481-490

Sprache:

Französisch

Weiterer Titel:

Réunions pluridisciplinaires déterminant l’imputabilité des xénobiotiques dans les causes de la mort : quel apport aux données de pharmacovigilance ?

Beteiligte Personen:

Lalanne, Sébastien [VerfasserIn]
Caradec, Quentin [VerfasserIn]
Baert, Alain [VerfasserIn]
Bouvet, Renaud [VerfasserIn]
Morel, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Polard, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
Gicquel, Thomas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Analgesics, Opioid
Analyse médicolégale
Antihistaminiques
CD35PMG570
Cause of death
Causes de la mort
Forensic toxicology
Histamine antagonists
Journal Article
Opiacés
Opiates
Oxycodone
Pharmacovigilance
Xénobiotiques
Xenobiotics

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Date Completed 17.09.2021

Date Revised 17.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.therap.2019.10.005

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305253581