Polydrug abuse associated with nitrous oxide causes death
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Polydrug abuse associated with nitrous oxide causes death
The case report byHirvioja et al. raises some interesting points [1]. Unfortunately, the title is somewhat misleading because it suggests that it was nitrous oxide alone that caused the death and ignores the likelihood, from the data presented, that the death was probably due to the other substances found in the patient’s blood aswell as the nitrous oxide [1]. As far as I am aware, there is no ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Medical Case Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2053-8855
DOI: 10.1093/omcr/omw038