Acute Cocaine Toxicity
General BroadCAST17 Helmi 2021

Acute Cocaine Toxicity

Cocaine might be a drug you associate with the 1980s, however, a 2018 audit found that it was still the 2nd most used recreational drug within the UK. Deaths associated with cocaine doubled between 2015 and 2018. 2019 marks the highest deaths on record linked to cocaine use after 8 years of successive increase. This month we’re looking at the pathophysiology of cocaine, the symptoms involved with toxicity and what we need to do to manage these patients. read the article at: https://www.generalbroadcast.org.uk/blog/overdose-cocaine

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