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Management of the Drug Abusing Patient in the ICU

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Substance Abuse

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Substance use is often associated with motor vehicle accidents, falls, drownings, thermal injuries, homicide, and suicide. In the United States half of the trauma beds are occupied by patients involved in alcohol-related traffic accidents. Cocaine and cannabis use place the patient at a higher risk of all types of injuries. Patients who stay in the ICU may develop withdrawal syndromes; these are physiologic responses to abrupt withdrawal or reduction of drug use and complicate the management of these patients.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedars Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Ranjit Deshpande M.B.B.S., Jhaodi Gong M.D. & Ala Haddadin M.D.

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

    Ryan Chadha M.D.

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  1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Interim Hospital, and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Deshpande, R., Gong, J., Chadha, R., Haddadin, A. (2015). Management of the Drug Abusing Patient in the ICU. In: Kaye, A., Vadivelu, N., Urman, R. (eds) Substance Abuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1951-2_31

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