PMID: 1190931Nov 1, 1975Paper

Physiologic and biochemical abnormalities in self-induced drug overdosage.

Archives of Internal Medicine
F L Glauser, W R Smith

Abstract

The following abnormalities were observed during the first 24 hours of admission for 162 drug overdosage (OD) episodes in 152 patients: abnormal chest x-ray films; increased A-aO2 gradient; elevated white blood cell (WBC) counts; elevated serum enzyme levels; gross myoglobinuria; skin lesions suggestive of pressure necrosis; and abnormal electrocardiograms. Many sputum cultures were positive for single or multiple potentially pathogenic organisms. These correlations existed: all patients with OD duration of less than 12 hours were hyperthermic; as temperatures increased so did WBC counts; hyperthermic patients had higher creatine phosphokinase (CPK) values than those with hypothermia or normothermia; patients with skin lesions had higher temperatures and CPK values and longer OD duration; serum enzme levels increased with increasing OD duration; patients with CPK levels greater than 10,000 mU/ml had myoglobinuria; and patients with the most abnormal chest x-ray films had higher temperatures and larger A-aO2 gradients. Incidence of pneumonitis is low, even with abnormal chest radiograms, leukocytosis, hyperthermia, and positive sputum cultures. Abnormal temperatures and leukocytosis are probably secondary to stress, hypoxemia, a...Continue Reading

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Jun 15, 1981·Klinische Wochenschrift·H P SchusterL S Weilemann
Aug 25, 2009·The American Journal of Medicine·Suresh KrishnamoorthyDeirdre A Lane

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