Ketamine detection in urine samples from patients poisoned by recreational drugs: epidemiologic, clinical, and toxicologic profiles.

Objectives: To describe the epidemiologic, clinical, and toxicologic profiles of patients who used recreational ketamine and experienced acute poisoning.

Material And Methods: Retrospective observational study of patients attended by several emergency medical services in the Balearic Islands for analytically confirmed acute poisoning after using ketamine between January 2016 and December 2020. Urine samples were analyzed by immunoassay and combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Amphetamine and methamphetamine poisonings attended in hospital emergency departments: clinical features and the usefulness of laboratory confirmation.

Objectives: To determine whether clinical and toxicologic findings differed between cases of amphetamine (AMP) and methamphetamine (mAMP) poisoning attended in 2 Balearic Island hospital emergency departments.

Material And Methods: Retrospective observational study of AMP and mAMP cases with laboratory confirmation between 2013 and 2018. We compared clinical and toxicologic variables as well as clinical management between groups.

[Management of hemorrhage in patients with abdominal trauma: application of the European Guidelines for the management of bleeding following major trauma].

In patients with traumatic intraabdominal hemorrhage, urgent decisions must be made. Resuscitation measures must often be simultaneously combined with diagnostic actions and measures to control the source of the bleeding. Hemorrhages are usually complicated by coagulation disorders and the presence of acidosis and hypothermia.