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Anaesthetic implications of drug abuse in trauma patients

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Trauma Operative Procedures

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It is increasingly recognised that drug abuse not only contributes to the trauma patient population but also that the effects of acute and chronic drug toxicity have major implications for patient management. The role of drug abuse as a factor associated with morbidity and mortality in the trauma setting has not been properly quantified. Physicians dealing with victims of acute trauma will however, inevitably have to deal with the associated problems of drug abuse. For optimal management of these patients a thorough working knowledge of commonly abused drugs is required.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Cattinara Hospital, Trieste, Italy

    G. Berlot MD  & A. Gullo MD  & 

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium

    H. Delooz MD

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Parr, M.J.A., Hadfield, R.J.H. (1999). Anaesthetic implications of drug abuse in trauma patients. In: Berlot, G., Delooz, H., Gullo, A. (eds) Trauma Operative Procedures. Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2151-8_15

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