@article{ref1,
title="An unusual complication of cocaine toxicity",
journal="Acute medicine",
year="2013",
author="Houghton, Lucy and Jones, Quentin and Wathen, Chris",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="96-97",
abstract="A 25-year man presented to the Accident and Emergency Department complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath after taking 70 grams of cocaine over 10 hours. He said a friend had noticed that his skin had turned dark blue. On examination the patient was severely centrally and peripherally cyanosed. His pulse oximeter oxygen saturations were 88% on air. An arterial blood gas showed a methaemoglobin level of 45.6%. The patient was diagnosed with cocaineinduced methaemoglobinaemia and given methyl thioninium chloride (methylene blue). He made an uneventful recovery.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1747-4884",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}