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Risk Management in First Aid for Acute Drug Intoxication

Drug abuse (cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs) is an increasing phenomenon, especially in the younger population, thus leading to more cases of intoxication requiring evaluation in the emergency department and subsequent hospitalization. In 2017, 34.2% of students reported having used...

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Autores principales: Piccioni, Andrea, Cicchinelli, Sara, Saviano, Luisa, Gilardi, Emanuele, Zanza, Christian, Brigida, Mattia, Tullo, Gianluca, Volonnino, Gianpietro, Covino, Marcello, Franceschi, Francesco, La Russa, Raffaele
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33143348
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218021
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author Piccioni, Andrea
Cicchinelli, Sara
Saviano, Luisa
Gilardi, Emanuele
Zanza, Christian
Brigida, Mattia
Tullo, Gianluca
Volonnino, Gianpietro
Covino, Marcello
Franceschi, Francesco
La Russa, Raffaele
author_facet Piccioni, Andrea
Cicchinelli, Sara
Saviano, Luisa
Gilardi, Emanuele
Zanza, Christian
Brigida, Mattia
Tullo, Gianluca
Volonnino, Gianpietro
Covino, Marcello
Franceschi, Francesco
La Russa, Raffaele
author_sort Piccioni, Andrea
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description Drug abuse (cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs) is an increasing phenomenon, especially in the younger population, thus leading to more cases of intoxication requiring evaluation in the emergency department and subsequent hospitalization. In 2017, 34.2% of students reported having used an illegal psychoactive substance in their lifetime, while 26% reported having done so over the past year. We made a review about the effectiveness of the role of the temporary observation unit in the emergency department to improve management of acute drugs intoxication. We checked medical literature from the last 10 years (2009–2019). The following electronic databases were systematically searched: MEDLINE-PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Then, a systematic review was carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review standards. Intoxicated patients usually display a favorable medical course, few diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, a short stay in the hospital, and, when hospitalization is needed, semi-intensive therapy is a feasible solution; therefore, intoxicated patients are ideal candidates for a temporary observation unit. The emergency department is very important to manage intoxicated patients; however, the hospitalization of these patients is often not necessary.
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spelling pubmed-76637462020-11-14 Risk Management in First Aid for Acute Drug Intoxication Piccioni, Andrea Cicchinelli, Sara Saviano, Luisa Gilardi, Emanuele Zanza, Christian Brigida, Mattia Tullo, Gianluca Volonnino, Gianpietro Covino, Marcello Franceschi, Francesco La Russa, Raffaele Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Drug abuse (cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs) is an increasing phenomenon, especially in the younger population, thus leading to more cases of intoxication requiring evaluation in the emergency department and subsequent hospitalization. In 2017, 34.2% of students reported having used an illegal psychoactive substance in their lifetime, while 26% reported having done so over the past year. We made a review about the effectiveness of the role of the temporary observation unit in the emergency department to improve management of acute drugs intoxication. We checked medical literature from the last 10 years (2009–2019). The following electronic databases were systematically searched: MEDLINE-PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Then, a systematic review was carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review standards. Intoxicated patients usually display a favorable medical course, few diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, a short stay in the hospital, and, when hospitalization is needed, semi-intensive therapy is a feasible solution; therefore, intoxicated patients are ideal candidates for a temporary observation unit. The emergency department is very important to manage intoxicated patients; however, the hospitalization of these patients is often not necessary. MDPI 2020-10-30 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7663746/ /pubmed/33143348 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218021 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cicchinelli, Sara
Saviano, Luisa
Gilardi, Emanuele
Zanza, Christian
Brigida, Mattia
Tullo, Gianluca
Volonnino, Gianpietro
Covino, Marcello
Franceschi, Francesco
La Russa, Raffaele
Risk Management in First Aid for Acute Drug Intoxication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33143348
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218021
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