@article{ref1,
title="Intentional drug overdose: predictors of clinical course in the intensive care unit",
journal="Heart and lung",
year="1996",
author="Heyman, E. N. and LoCastro, D. E. and Gouse, L. H. and Morris, D. L. and Lombardo, B. A. and Montenegro, H. D. and Takacs, M.",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="246-252",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the characteristics of patients admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) after intentional drug overdose. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review, descriptive. SETTING: Midwestern teaching hospital. SUBJECTS: Convenience sample of 43 patients admitted to the MICU after intentional drug overdose. OUTCOME MEASURES: Survival and disposition of those patients who survived and were discharged from the MICU. RESULTS: Ninety-five percent of the patients survived and were discharged from the MICU; Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scores ranged from 1 to 29 (mean, 8); Glascow Coma Scale scores ranged from 3 to 15 (mean 12.5); five patients were intubated and two patients had serious electrocardiograph changes requiring pharmacologic intervention for dysrhythmia. CONCLUSIONS: Neurologic findings were the best indicators of serious complications after drug overdose. THerefore, patients with a Glascow Coma Scale score of more than six, and who are not intubated, may not need admission to an intensive care unit.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0147-9563",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}