Cocaine and the critical care challenge

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1851-1859

  Shanti, Christina M ^a   Lucas, Charles E ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Critical care; Organ failure

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

CARDIOTOXICITY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG COMPLICATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038805612     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000063258.68159.71     Document Type: Review

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