Is admission after intravenous heroin overdose necessary?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1326-1330

  Smith, David A ^a   Leake, Lawrence ^b   Loflin, James Randall ^b   Yealy, Donald M ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

heroin poisoning

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ADULT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEROIN; HUMAN; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OVERDOSE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0026784601     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(05)81896-7     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Narcotics
2. Hospital morbidity and mortality of acute opiate intoxication
3. A clinical study of and epidemic of heroin intoxication and heroin-induced pulmonary edema
4. The acute pulmonary edema of heroin intoxication
5. The clinical spectrum of heroin pulmonary edema
6. Naloxone
7. Pharmacokinetics of naloxone in rats and in man: Basis for its potency and short duration of action
8. A dosing nomogram for continuous infusion intravenous naloxone
9. The human pharmacology and abuse potential of N-allylnoroxymorphone (naloxone)
10. Antagonism of morphine-induced respiratory depression with nalmefene
11. Naloxone antagonism of morphine induced respiratory depression
12. Opioid analgesics and antagonists
13. Methadone-induced pulmonary edema
14. Continuous infusion of naloxone in the treatment of narcotic overdose