Good Clinical Outcome After Accidental Intra-arterial Injection of Flunitrazepam Tablets in 16 Drug Abusers with Critical Limb Ischaemia
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Good clinical outcome after accidental intra-arterial injection of flunitrazepam tablets in 16 drug abusers with critical limb ischaemia.
OBJECTIVES Inadvertent intra-arterial injection of flunitrazepam tablets intended for intravenous use by drug abusers has devastating effects. We report here on the clinical outcome of 16 drug abusers developing critical limb ischaemia after flunitrazepam injection. METHODS Treatment combined immediate analgesia and anticoagulation, long-lasting local thrombolysis and vasodilatation, antibiot...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2013.11.082