Anesthetic Challenges Posed by Heavy Kratom Users

Kratom is a herbal and natural dietary supplement from Southeast Asia that is gaining popularity in the United States. Its leaves contain multiple psychoactive chemicals that stimulate opioid, alpha-2, and serotonergic receptors. Kratom is used as a stimulant and in the treatment of anxiety, pain, a...

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Autores principales: Lund, Elisa, Low, Aaron B, Allan, Jennifer D, Puentes, Jose A, Flynn, David N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8982483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35399423
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22864
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Low, Aaron B
Allan, Jennifer D
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description Kratom is a herbal and natural dietary supplement from Southeast Asia that is gaining popularity in the United States. Its leaves contain multiple psychoactive chemicals that stimulate opioid, alpha-2, and serotonergic receptors. Kratom is used as a stimulant and in the treatment of anxiety, pain, and opioid withdrawal. In most states, kratom can be purchased legally and is sold at smoke shops, gas stations, and online. To date, only limited data is available on the impact of habitual kratom use on patients undergoing anesthesia. The following case report highlights multiple anesthetic challenges posed by a heavy kratom user.
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spelling pubmed-89824832022-04-07 Anesthetic Challenges Posed by Heavy Kratom Users Lund, Elisa Low, Aaron B Allan, Jennifer D Puentes, Jose A Flynn, David N Cureus Anesthesiology Kratom is a herbal and natural dietary supplement from Southeast Asia that is gaining popularity in the United States. Its leaves contain multiple psychoactive chemicals that stimulate opioid, alpha-2, and serotonergic receptors. Kratom is used as a stimulant and in the treatment of anxiety, pain, and opioid withdrawal. In most states, kratom can be purchased legally and is sold at smoke shops, gas stations, and online. To date, only limited data is available on the impact of habitual kratom use on patients undergoing anesthesia. The following case report highlights multiple anesthetic challenges posed by a heavy kratom user. Cureus 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8982483/ /pubmed/35399423 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22864 Text en Copyright © 2022, Lund et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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