Acute Management of Cocaine-Associated Methaemoglobinaemia

Methaemoglobinaemia is a potentially life-threatening complication of problem drug use. This is a case report of a 29-year-old man who presented himself cyanosed after a cocaine binge. It highlights the diagnosis and management of this condition from an acute medical perspective.

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Autor principal: Weichert, Immo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3254234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22242027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/136396
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spelling pubmed-32542342012-01-12 Acute Management of Cocaine-Associated Methaemoglobinaemia Weichert, Immo Case Rep Med Case Report Methaemoglobinaemia is a potentially life-threatening complication of problem drug use. This is a case report of a 29-year-old man who presented himself cyanosed after a cocaine binge. It highlights the diagnosis and management of this condition from an acute medical perspective. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3254234/ /pubmed/22242027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/136396 Text en Copyright © 2011 Immo Weichert. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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