After antagonization of acute opiate overdose: A survey at hospitals in Vienna

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1479-1487

  Seidler, Dan ^a,c   Stühlinger, Georg H ^a   Fischer, Gabriele ^b   Woisetschlaeger, Christian ^a   Berzlanovich, Andrea ^a   Schmid, Rainer ^d   Hirschl, Michael M ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b University Clinic   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; DIAZEPAM; FLUMAZENIL; NALOXONE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NARCOTICS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; OVERDOSE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0029805443     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb02252.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1994) Jahresberich 1993 über die Suchtgiftkriminalität in Österreich, [Yearbook 1993 on drug crimes in Austria] p. 77 (Vienna, Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs).
2. RISSER, D. & SCHNEIDER, B. (1994) Drug-related deaths between 1985 and 1992 examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Vienna, Austria, Addiction, 98, 851-857.
3. SCHULZ-SCHAEFFER, W., PETERS, T. & PÜSCHEL, K. (1993) Drug abuse emergencies in Hamburg 1990/91, Forensic Science International, 62, 167-171.
4. BRZOZOWSKI, M., SHIH, R. D., BANIA, T. C. & HOFFMAN, R. S. (1993) Discharging heroin overdose patients after observation? Annals of Emergency Medicine, 22, 163.
5. SEIDLER, D., WOISETSCHLAEGER, C., SCHMEISER-RIEDER, A., HIRSCHL, M. M., KAFF, A. & LAGGNER, A. N. (1996) Prehospital opiate emergencies in Vienna, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14, 436-439.
6. YEALY, D. M., PARIS, P. M., KAPLAN, R. M., HELLER, M. B. & MARINI, S. E. (1990) The safety of prehospital naloxone administration by paramedics, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 19, 902-905.
7. PRESCOTT, L. F., TEMPLE, W., BATEMAN, D. et al. (1993) Naloxone, in: MEREDITH, T. J., JACOBSEN, D., HAINES, J. A. & BERGER, J.-C. (Eds) Naloxone, Flumazenil and Dantrolene as Antidotes, pp. 7-21 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
8. CHAMBERIAIN, J. M. & KLEIN, B. L. (1994) A comprehensive review of naloxone for the emergency medicine physician, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 12, 650-660.
9. JAFFE, J. H. & MARTIN, R. W. (1991) Opioid analgesics and antagonists, in: GOODMAN GILMAN, A., RALL, T. W., NIES, A. S. & TAYLOR, P. (Eds) Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, pp. 485-522 (New York, McMillan).
10. GUTIERREZ-CEBOLLADA, J., CAMI, J. & DE LATORRE, R. (1991) Heroin intoxication: the relation between plasma morphine concentration and clinical state at admission, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 40, 635.
11. GARRIOTT, J. C. & STURNER, W. Q. (1973) Morphine concentrations and survival periods in acute heroin fatalities, New England Journal of Medicine, 289, 1276-1278.
12. HUBER, D. H., STIVERS, R. R. & HOWARD, L. B. (1974) Heroin-overdose deaths in Atlanta, Journal of the American Medical Association, 228, 319-322.
13. RUTTENBER, A. J. & LUKE, J. L. (1988) Heroin-related deaths, Science, 226, 14-20.
14. GUTIERREZ-CEBOLLADA, J., DE LA TORRE, R., ORTUNO, J., GARCES, J. M. & CAMI, J. (1994) Psychotropic drug consumption and other factors associated with heroin overdose, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 35, 169-174.
15. BERTINI, G., RUSSO, L., CRICELLI, F. et al. (1992) Role of a prehospital medical system in reducing heroin-related deaths, Critical Care Medicine, 20, 493-498.
16. BAMMER, G. & SENGOZ, A. (1994) Non-fatal heroin overdoses, Medical Journal of Australia, 161, 572-573.
17. MONOTTI, R. (1993) Der Drogennotfall [Drug emergencies], Schweizer Medizinische Wochenschrift, 123, 881-886.
18. SMITH, D. A., LEAKE, L., LOFLIN, J. R. & YEALY, D. M. (1992) Is admission after intravenous heroin overdose necessary? Annals of Emergency Medicine, 21, 1326-1330.
19. KESSLER, R. & RYSER, D. H. (1991) Der Drogen-patient als Notfall [The drug abuse patient as emergency], Schweizer Rundschau der Medizin, 80, 31-35.
20. ZENKER, C. & LANG, P. (1993) Drug emergency patients are a burden for the medical care system: inadequate care for drug emergency patients, Forensic Science International, 62, 117-120.
21. MANFREDINI, R., GALLERANI, M., CALO, G., PASIN, M., GOVONI, M. & FERSINI, C. (1994) Emergency admissions of opioid drug abusers for overdose: a chronobiological study of enhanced risk, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 24, 615-618.
22. GOT, P., BAUD, F. J., SANDOUK, P., DIAMANT-BERGER, O. & SCHERMANN, J. M. (1994) Morphine disposition in opiate-intoxicated patients: relevance of nonspecific opiate immunoassays, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 18, 189-194.
23. DUBERSTEIN, J. L. & KAUFMAN, D. M. (1971) A clinical study of heroin intoxication and heroin induced pulmonary edema, American Journal of Medicine, 51, 704-714.
24. GHODSE, A. H., GHAFFARI, K., BHAT, A. V., GALEA, A. & QURESHI, Y. H. (1986) Attitudes of health care professionals towards patients who take overdoses, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 32, 58-63.
25. GHODSE, A. H. (1977) Drug dependent individuals dealt with by London casualty departments, British Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 273-280.