Aust J Gen Pract
The assessment and management of gamma hydroxybutyrate use in general practice.
Phan V, Arunogiri S, Lubman DI
Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is an illicit drug commonly used in music festival, party and 'chemsex' settings. Most people who use GHB do so occasional ...
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Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol
Multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of drug- and alcohol-poisoning deaths in New York City, 2009-2014.
Ransome Y, Subramanian SV, Duncan DT, Vlahov D, Warren J
Drug- and alcohol-poisoning deaths remain current public health problems. Studies to date have typically focused on individual-level predictors of dru ...
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BMC Public Health
Correlations between opioid mortality increases related to illicit/synthetic opioids and reductions of medical opioid dispensing - exploratory analyses from Canada.
Fischer B, Jones W, Tyndall M, Kurdyak P
North America has been experiencing a persistent epidemic of opioid-related overdose mortality, which has increasingly been driven by fatalities from ...
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Clin Neurol Neurosurg
Unplanned 30-Day readmission rates after spine surgery in a community-based Hospital setting.
Villavicencio A, Rajpal S, Lee Nelson E, Avoian S, Burneikiene S
Unplanned readmissions after spinal surgery adversely affect not only healthcare costs but also the quality of delivered care. The primary objective o ...
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J Emerg Med 2020 Jan 28
An Unusual Cause of Intubating Laryngeal Mask Obstruction Preventing Successful Intubation in the Emergency Department.
Helmer JL, McCarthy P, Reardon RF, Driver BE
The intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA) allows providers to blindly intubate through the device. We report a case of foreign material obstructing ...
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