Citation

Garg P, Hitawala AA, Agarwal M. Indian J. Crit. Care Med. 2018; 22(1): 46-48.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, GBH American Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Publisher Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_427_17

PMID

29422734

PMCID

PMC5793023

Abstract

While opioid drug toxicity and side effects of long-term opioid use during medical care are well studied, there is little information regarding effects of ingestion of raw opium. Characterization of the effects to a particular alkaloid is difficult since raw opium contains a number of alkaloids. Here, we present a case of poisoning due to ingestion of raw opium leading to severe myocardial suppression.

Language: en

Keywords

Left ventricular dysfunction; myocardial suppression; raw opium