Construction of Hong Kong Modern Living: Household Product and Appliance Advertisements in the Pre-Television Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Wendy Siuyi Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Household Product

Drug Overdosage and Other Poisoning in Hong Kong - The Prince of Wales Hospital (Shatin) Experience

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 512-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Y.K. Chan ◽  
Julian A.J.H. Critchley ◽  
Matthew T.V. Chan ◽  
C.M. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Acute Poisoning ◽  
Substantial Proportion ◽  
Accidental Poisoning ◽  
Household Product ◽  
Needed Information ◽  
Household Products ◽  
Drug Overdosage ◽  
Predominantly Female ◽  
Medical Wards

From 1988 to 1991, 732 patients (91.1% Chinese) were admitted to four general medical wards at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong with acute poisoning. The patients were predominantly female (68.9%) and relatively young (86.3% below the age of 40). Further analysis of 655 patients indicates that the vast majority of patients (96%) were admitted after self-poisoning with drugs or chemicals while 4% of cases were due to accidental poisoning. The main agents used by the former group included hypnotics/sedatives (33.1 %), household products (15.7%), and analgesics (13.7%). There were nine deaths (1.4%). When compared to other Western countries, two important variations in the pattern of acute poisoning were seen. A substantial proportion of drugs ingested by our patients were not precisely identified. 'Dettol', a household product, was commonly used for self-poisoning in Hong Kong. Territory-wide studies of longer duration are needed to provide the physicians in Hong Kong with much needed information on the incidence and the pattern of acute poisoning.

Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli infection: The Hong Kong experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (11-s4) ◽  
pp. S289-S293 ◽  
Author(s):  
SSY WONG ◽  
WC YAM ◽  
PHM LEUNG ◽  
PCY WOO ◽  
KY YUEN
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Escherichia Coli Infection

Abstracts of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong 20-21 May 2000

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. A5-A5
Author(s):  
P.B.S. Lai ◽  
W.Y. Lau ◽  
S.S.M. Ng ◽  
P.T. Chui ◽  
K.L. Leung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Annual Scientific ◽  
Annual Scientific Meeting
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