TY - JOUR
T1 - A clinical study of an epidemic of heroin intoxication and heroin-induced pulmonary edema
AU - Duberstein, Joel L.
AU - Kaufman, David Myland
PY - 1971/12
Y1 - 1971/12
N2 - An epidemic of heroin overdose is described which occurred over a seventeen-month period and involved 149 patients who were predominately young, black or Puerto Rican males. The major complications were pulmonary edema (48 per cent), pneumonia (30 per cent), cardiac arrhythmias (4 per cent) and death (8.7 per cent). Hypoxia appeared to be the cause of the pulmonary edema and cardiac arrhythmias. A treatment protocol is outlined with emphasis on the need for oxygen therapy.
AB - An epidemic of heroin overdose is described which occurred over a seventeen-month period and involved 149 patients who were predominately young, black or Puerto Rican males. The major complications were pulmonary edema (48 per cent), pneumonia (30 per cent), cardiac arrhythmias (4 per cent) and death (8.7 per cent). Hypoxia appeared to be the cause of the pulmonary edema and cardiac arrhythmias. A treatment protocol is outlined with emphasis on the need for oxygen therapy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9343(71)90298-1
DO - 10.1016/0002-9343(71)90298-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 5129541
AN - SCOPUS:0015173105
SN - 0002-9343
VL - 51
SP - 704
EP - 714
JO - The American Journal of Medicine
JF - The American Journal of Medicine
IS - 6
ER -