Особенности клинического течения и коррекция метаболических расстройств у больных с тяжелыми отравлениями метадоном

Objective: to study the clinical patterns due to course of severe methadone poisoning and to assess the results of reamberine use in the complex of intensive therapy for this condition. Subjects and methods. Sixty-eight patients with acute severe methadone poisoning were examined and treated. The clinical manifestations of intoxication and impairment in the tissue component of oxygen transport were evaluated. Results. The severity of its clinical picture, besides directly toxic effect of methadone was characterized by the depth and magnitude of hypoxia that clinically manifested both as cerebral edema/swelling and pulmonary edema and, in cases of hyperhypoxia, as severest disorders in the cardiovascular system. The incorporation of the antihypoxant reamberine into an intensive care program for severe acute methadone poisoning was found to result in a rapider reduction of tissue hypoxia, which substantially diminished the degree of occurring complications and improved the clinical course of acute intoxications. Conclusion. Thus, correction of metabolic aftereffects and alleviation of hypoxic lesions result in a reduction in the duration of coma, the length of stay on mechanical ventilation, the rate and severity of secondary pulmonary complications and mortality rates.