An Accident with Cocaine

An Unusual Accident

What Is an Accident?

course, arising out of the Workmen's Compensation Act, but sometimes under common law as well ; and therefore a review of those decisions which have helped to define what an accident is may not be out of place at a medical meeting. It is curious that neither of the Workmen's Compensation Acts contained this definition, so that the meaning of the term has tended to vary case by case. Prior to th...

Silent Cocaine Poisoning

Background: Cocaine poisoning is known for causing severe clinical effects such as tachycardia, hypertension, agitation and confusion. Absence of clinical manifestations in cocaine poisoning is unusual. Case report: A 26-year old man, known to be a cocaine addict, declared that he was forced by cocaine dealers to swallow many tablets of cocaine, six hours prior to admission to emergency departm...

Cocaine as an Intoxicant

but we occasionall}7 come across cases where the victims have contracted the habit from the very beginning. We do not know how the people of Calcutta have derived their knowledge of the intoxicating property of a costly drug which has hitherto been only handled by medical men, but facts collected tend to show that they have got it from their Bhagalpore brethren where cocaine has become a social...

Inpatients in an accident unit.

A one-year prospective study was undertaken in the 79-bed accident unit of the Bristol Royal Infirmary to define reasons for continuing inpatient care. This showed that, of a consecutive series of 466 patients staying in hospital for over two weeks, 35% lengthened their stay beyond that needed for acute nursing or continued medical care. A combination of factors usually led to total social depe...