Opium abuse and its problems in anesthesia practice: a review from bench to bedside

authors:

avatar Ali Dabbagh ORCID 1 , * , avatar Samira Rajaei ORCID 2

Professor of Cardiac Anesthesia; Anesthesiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
MD, PhD. Assistant Professor, Immunology Department, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Journal of Cellular & Molecular Anesthesia: Vol.1, issue 2; e148753
published online: March 16, 2016
article type: Review_ojs_imported
received: December 11, 2015
accepted: February 27, 2016

how to cite: Dabbagh A, Rajaei S. Opium abuse and its problems in anesthesia practice: a review from bench to bedside. J Cell Mol Anesth. 2016;1(2):e148753. 

Abstract

Opium is a derivative of opium poppy; the species of plant which its extract is used for preparing opium. Opium abuse is considered under drug dependency classification of psychiatric diseases and opium abusers have a number of major challenges before, during and after anesthesia for surgical operations (i.e. the perioperative period). This article reviews these clinical challenges during the perioperative period to discuss the new clinical findings for these patients and to demonstrate some of the main problems that physicians are encountered with.Keywords: opium, abuse, anesthesia

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