• J Clin Anesth · Aug 2003

    Review

    Anesthetic implications of drug abuse in pregnancy.

    • Krzysztof M Kuczkowski.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103, USA. kkuczkowski@ucsd.edu
    • J Clin Anesth. 2003 Aug 1; 15 (5): 382-94.

    AbstractSubstance abuse has crossed social, economic, and geographic borders and--throughout the world--remains one of the major problems facing society today. The prevalence of substance abuse in young adults (including women) has increased markedly over the past 20 years. Nearly 90% of drug-abusing women are of childbearing age. Consequently, it is not unusual to encounter pregnant women who abuse illicit drugs, as numerous case reports of drug abuse in pregnancy confirm. The diverse clinical manifestations of drug abuse combined with physiologic changes of pregnancy, and pathophysiology of coexisting pregnancy-related disease may lead to life-threatening complications and significantly impact the practice of obstetrical anesthesia. Regardless of the drug(s) ingested and clinical manifestations, it is always difficult to predict the exact anesthetic implications in chemically dependent patients.

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