Can I read Substance Use Disorders in Adult Critically Ill Patients on EtoBox?

Substance Use Disorders in Adult Critically Ill Patients by Kunal Karamchandani, Jon E. Grant is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Substance Use Disorders in Adult Critically Ill Patients about?

The steady increase in individuals with substance use disorder requiring admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) has been an area of concern, leading to an increase in ICU utilization and costs related to both licit and illicit abuse of these drugs. Most recently, the COVID 19 pandemic has contributed to an increase in substance use and overdoses, with preliminary data suggesting an almost 30% increase in overdose deaths over the course of the pandemic. This increase in prevalence underscores the importance for the critical care practitioners to be knowledgeable about how substance use disorders impact the critically ill patient and understanding the epidemiology of substance use in critically ill patients. Management of patients with substance use disorders is complicated by the associated intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, as well as by the physiologic changes that occur with chronic use that can cause, predispose patients to, and worsen the severity of many conditions. This makes it vital that critical care providers are adept at identifying and treating common intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, as well as proficient at treatment considerations owing to chronic use of

Who reads Substance Use Disorders in Adult Critically Ill Patients?

Author

Kunal Karamchandani, Jon E. Grant

Publisher

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031670688

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Psychiatry