The Pulmonary Edema of Heroin Toxicity—An Example of the Stiff Lung Syndrome
| Autor: | Thomas R. Westerhoff, Roy T. Smith, Barry Shapiro, David W. Cugell, Whitney W. Addington, Ernest S. Bazley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1972 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Bradycardia medicine.medical_specialty Pulmonary Edema Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Fibrin Heroin Positive-Pressure Respiration Edema medicine Humans Lung Compliance Lung biology business.industry Respiration Oxygen Inhalation Therapy Carbon Dioxide respiratory system Pulmonary edema medicine.disease Positive pressure breathing respiratory tract diseases Surgery Oxygen Radiography medicine.anatomical_structure Spirometry Anesthesia Toxicity biology.protein Female Autopsy medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Chest. 62:199-205 |
| ISSN: | 0012-3692 |
| DOI: | 10.1378/chest.62.2.199 |
| Popis: | A young woman with the “stiff lung” (respirator lung) syndrome is described. She became comatose following heroin overdose. Although the prognosis is usually good if the patient survives long enough to receive intensive treatment, this patient succumbed after eight days of continuous ventilatory support. Throughout that period she required very high inspired oxygen concentrations and continuous positive pressure breathing to distend her stiffened lung and to prevent severe hypoxemia. Ventilatory assistance could not be interrupted, even for brief periods, because of a profound bradycardia. The lungs contained considerable edema, precipitated fibrin and desquamated cells. Widespread hyaline membranes, which are associated with this syndrome, were present. |
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