Impact of co-ingestion of ethanol on the clinical symptomatology and severity of patients attended in the emergency department for recreational drug toxicity
| Autor: | Òscar Miró, August Supervía, Ángel Bajo Bajo, Dima Ibrahim-Achi, Jordi Puiguriguer Ferrando, María Ángeles Leciñena, Mª José Venegas de L'Hotellerie, Miguel Galicia, Beatriz Martín-Pérez, Guillermo Burillo-Putze |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ibrahim-Achi, Dima, Miró, Òscar, Galicia, Miguel, Puiguriguer Ferrando¸ Jordi, Leciñena, Maria Angeles, Venegas de L'Hotellerie, Mª José, Bajo Bajo, Ángel, Martín-Pérez, Beatriz, Burillo-Putze, Guillermo, Red de estudio de drogas en Urgencias Hospitalarias en España REDUrHE |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male Drug medicine.medical_specialty Substance-Related Disorders Evolution media_common.quotation_subject Intoxication Severity of Illness Index Severity Level of consciousness Intensive care Internal medicine Humans Medicine Adverse effect Amphetamine media_common Ethanol Illicit Drugs business.industry Emergency department Drugs General Medicine Odds ratio Confidence interval Emergency Medicine Female Emergency Service Hospital business medicine.drug |
| Popis: | Objective Investigate whether there are differences in the drugs involved, symptomatology and severity of drug intoxication in patients with co-ingestion of alcohol attended in hospital emergency departments (ED). Method Patients attended in 11 Spanish EDs due to drug intoxication were included. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were collected. A combined adverse event of cardiorespiratory arrest, need for intubation, and admission to intensive care or death was considered as the primary indicator of severity. The symptomatology and severity were compared adjusted for age, sex and type of drug based on whether or not ethanol had been co-ingested. Results 3925 patients (alcohol co-ingestion: 2290, 58.3%) with a mean age of 33 (±11) years were included, and 25% were women. Co-ingestion of alcohol was observed in younger patients, in EDs in areas with high leisure tourism, on holidays and during the early morning hours. It was also more frequent in individuals intoxicated by amphetamine derivatives (66.2%) and cocaine (65.7%), and was more frequently associated with a reduction in consciousness (odds ratio [OR] = 2.13, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.69–2.67) and agitation/aggressiveness (OR = 1.22, 95% = 1.04–1.43). A combined adverse event was observed in 114 patients (2.9%) with no differences between individuals co-ingesting or not ethanol (3.1% vs. 2.7%; OR = 1.11, 95% CI = 0.74–1.65). Conclusion Co-ingestion of alcohol is more frequent in individuals intoxicated by cocaine and amphetamines and predisposes a greater reduction in the level of consciousness or agitation, although there are no differences in the severity of the episodes of drug intoxication. |
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