Emergency treatment of acute narcotic intoxication at Hai Ba Trung Hospital in Hanoi
- Author:
Hai Van To
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
narcotic
- MeSH:
Narcotics;
Poisoning;
therapy;
emergencies
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2001;(10):29-33
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Investigating 103 intoxicated patients admitted to our dep. Reanimation and Emergency from 1st Jan1998 to 31stNov 1999, we remarked almost were males, aged between 16-30 years. Main drugs using were opium or opium residue by intravenous use. The frequent symptoms of acute drug poisoning were miotic 100%, coma status 79.61%, respiratory arrest 66.99%, and bradycardia 41.75%. Positive HIV in 12 persons (11.56%). Narcotic poisoning was severe. Early, active, appropriate treatments rapidly eliminated poisoning status after 1-3 hours with the death rate of 6.8%.
