I am sure that it would prejudice your publication prospects to ask if you:
1. Watch and wait (with a low GCS i.e.<8).
OR
2. Do what we do for all other OD's with a low GCS and secure the airway as
the airway protective reflexes will be impaired.
Despite reading the papers in Annals I am yet to be convinved that option 1
is really the safe way to go. They found that people who were intubated took
longer to recover (not surprising) but it just seems the safe thing to do to
me. However, as I said in my original post I am interested to hear from
anyone who has followed the conservative approach.
Simon Carley
SpR in Emergency Medicine
Hope Hospital
Salford
England
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From: Rowland Cottingham <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 08 February 1999 05:14
Subject: Re: GHB overdose
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>We are just about to submit a paper on this very subject!
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Rowley Cottingham
>
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>"Tradition is slovenliness!" Gustav Mahler on taking up his position as
>Director of the Vienna House when he had been told that a change he wanted
>could not be made as,"We have always done it this way".
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