heroin and Tachycardia

heroin has been researched along with Tachycardia* in 4 studies

Other Studies

4 other study(ies) available for heroin and Tachycardia

ArticleYear
Cotton fever: an evanescent process mimicking sepsis in an intravenous drug abuser.
    The Journal of emergency medicine, 2013, Volume: 44, Issue:6

    Although many complications of intravenous drug abuse are well described, "cotton fever" has had little mention in recent medical literature. Cotton fever is street terminology for the post-injection fever experienced by many drug users after "shooting up" with heroin reclaimed from a previously used cotton filter.. We report on a 22-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug abuse with fever 30 min after injecting heroin. He was intensely diaphoretic, tachycardic, and febrile. His workup was negative for any infectious etiology and he later admitted to reusing the same cotton balls for heroin filtration several times over in order to preserve more of the drug.. Although it is usually a benign situation, cotton fever can have a dramatic clinical and hematologic course. We present a typical case of cotton fever followed by a description of the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of this entity.

    Topics: Cotton Fiber; Diagnosis, Differential; Equipment Reuse; Fever; Filtration; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Male; Narcotics; Sepsis; Substance Abuse, Intravenous; Tachycardia; Young Adult

2013
Street drugs possibly tainted with clenbuterol.
    Journal of emergency nursing, 2008, Volume: 34, Issue:6

    Topics: Adrenergic beta-Agonists; Adult; Clenbuterol; Diagnosis, Differential; Drug Contamination; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Hypokalemia; Illicit Drugs; Male; Tachycardia

2008
[Nursing care of abstinent patients with heroin addiction].
    Zhonghua hu li za zhi = Chinese journal of nursing, 1993, Volume: 28, Issue:1

    Topics: Adult; Chlorpromazine; Female; Fever; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Male; Promethazine; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Tachycardia

1993
Speedballs: a new cause of intraoperative tachycardia and hypertension.
    Anesthesia and analgesia, 1991, Volume: 72, Issue:3

    Topics: Adult; Cocaine; Heroin; Humans; Hypertension; Illicit Drugs; Intraoperative Complications; Male; Self Medication; Tachycardia

1991