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Cognitive Skills Underlying Driving In Patients Discharged Following Self-Poisoning With Central Nervous System Depressant Drugs, Tharaka Dassanayake, Patricia Michie, Alison Jones, Trevor Mallard, Ian Whyte, Gregory Carter
Cognitive Skills Underlying Driving In Patients Discharged Following Self-Poisoning With Central Nervous System Depressant Drugs, Tharaka Dassanayake, Patricia Michie, Alison Jones, Trevor Mallard, Ian Whyte, Gregory Carter
Alison L Jones
Background: Central nervous system–depressant (CNS-Ds) drugs can impair cognitive functions and driving. They are also the most common drugs taken in overdose in hospital-treated episodes of self-poisoning. In Australia most of these patients are discharged within 48 h, while they still have possible subclinical drug effects. We aimed to determine whether patients treated for self-poisoning with CNS-Ds are impaired in the Trail-Making Test (TMT, parts A and B), a neuropsychological test that is known to correlate with driving performance. Methods: This study was a conducted from November 2008 to April 2011 in a referral center for poisonings in New South …
Drugs Of Abuse In The Intensive Care, Alison Jones
Drugs Of Abuse In The Intensive Care, Alison Jones
Alison L Jones
No abstract provided.
The Features And Management Of Poisoning With Drugs Used To Treat Parkinson's Disease, Alison Jones, A Proudfoot
The Features And Management Of Poisoning With Drugs Used To Treat Parkinson's Disease, Alison Jones, A Proudfoot
Alison L Jones
Drugs used in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease are occasionally taken in overdose. This review summarizes world-wide experience of poisoning with such drugs, and their features in overdosage, as no clinician will have seen a large number of cases, that the recognition and management of such rare cases may be optimized.
Drugs For Personal Fulfilment In The Elderly, L Prescott, Alison Jones
Drugs For Personal Fulfilment In The Elderly, L Prescott, Alison Jones
Alison L Jones
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Features And Management Of Poisoning With Modern Drugs Used To Treat Epilepsy, Alison Jones, A Proudfoot
Features And Management Of Poisoning With Modern Drugs Used To Treat Epilepsy, Alison Jones, A Proudfoot
Alison L Jones
Patients become poisoned with anticonvulsant drugs postulated to result from post-ictal depression which in a variety of ways (Table 1).1 The prevalence of may persist for several days after a seizure. self poisoning and suicide amongst epileptics is many Anticonvulsant poisoning in children is a significtimes higher than that of the non-epileptic popula- ant problem,4 and not surprisingly, epileptics usually tion.2 There are many possible reasons for this, ingest their own anticonvulsants.3,4 Thus the prevalincluding social stigma, employment and marital ence of acute, carbamazepine overdosage appears difficulties, frequent or poorly controlled seizures, to be rising as its role as a …
Can Medical Students Identify Recreational Drugs By Name?, Paul Dargan, C Bishop, C.A.A Chahal, Alison Jones, David Wood
Can Medical Students Identify Recreational Drugs By Name?, Paul Dargan, C Bishop, C.A.A Chahal, Alison Jones, David Wood
Alison L Jones
Background: Recreational drug toxicity is a common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department. Knowledge of recreational drug names is important to allow targeted assessment of patients presenting with recreational drug toxicity. Aims: To assess final year medical student knowledge of proper and street names for recreational drugs. Design: Questionnaire survey of final year medical students attending a revision lecture. Methods: There were two questionnaires used in this study. The first contained either proper names of recreational drugs or names sounding similar to recreational drugs or licensed pharmaceutical products; students were asked to identify which of these were recreational drugs. …