Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia

The use of “bath salts” or other new psychoactive substances, otherwise known as “legal highs”, is increasing. Illicit drug use during pregnancy is not uncommon. Nevertheless, literature reporting bath salts and their effect on pregnancy is scant. Besides, there seems to be no literature about bath...

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Autor principal: Schloemerkemper, Nina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Editorial Department of Journal of Biomedical Research 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29970622
http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.32.20180023
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description The use of “bath salts” or other new psychoactive substances, otherwise known as “legal highs”, is increasing. Illicit drug use during pregnancy is not uncommon. Nevertheless, literature reporting bath salts and their effect on pregnancy is scant. Besides, there seems to be no literature about bath salts and conduct of general anesthesia. This case report describes a general anesthetic for the surgical delivery of an infant to a woman under the acute influence of bath salts and methamphetamines.
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spelling pubmed-61176012019-01-04 Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia Schloemerkemper, Nina J Biomed Res Case Report The use of “bath salts” or other new psychoactive substances, otherwise known as “legal highs”, is increasing. Illicit drug use during pregnancy is not uncommon. Nevertheless, literature reporting bath salts and their effect on pregnancy is scant. Besides, there seems to be no literature about bath salts and conduct of general anesthesia. This case report describes a general anesthetic for the surgical delivery of an infant to a woman under the acute influence of bath salts and methamphetamines. Editorial Department of Journal of Biomedical Research 2018-07-26 2018-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6117601/ /pubmed/29970622 http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.32.20180023 Text en © 2018 by the Journal of Biomedical Research. All rights reserved /creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title_full Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title_fullStr Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title_full_unstemmed Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title_short Psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
title_sort psychotic due to bath salts and methamphetamines: emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29970622
http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.32.20180023
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