Juan Ortega Perez's research while affiliated with Hospital Universitari Son Espases and other places

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Objective: To investigate if clinical features associated with acute cannabis intoxication in patients presenting to Emergency Departments for medical assistance differ according to patient age and sex. Methods: We analysed presentations in the Euro-DEN Plus dataset from 2014-2019 in which cannabis was the only drug involved (except for alcohol), a...
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Objectives: To describe the epidemiologic, clinical, and toxicologic profiles of patients who used recreational ketamine and experienced acute poisoning. Material and methods: Retrospective observational study of patients attended by several emergency medical services in the Balearic Islands for analytically confirmed acute poisoning after using...
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Objectives: To study whether there are age-related differences in the clinical effects of cannabis poisoning and whether any age differences found are also related to sex or coingestion of alcohol. Material and methods: Descriptive observational study of patients treated in 11 emergency departments for symptoms related to cannabis use. We collec...
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4 , en representación de la Red de Estudio de Drogas en Urgencias Hospitalarias en España (REDUrHE) Objetivo. Investigar si existen diferencias en las manifestaciones clínicas por consumo de cannabis según la edad, y si estas se modifican en función del sexo o el consumo de etanol. Método. Estudio observacional descriptivo de pacientes atendidos en...

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... 15 Whereas the Euro-Den Plus project data evidenced that emergency hospital presentations related to tramadol abuse in a context of non-medical use were lower than for other opioids, a great variability has been observed in sentinel hospitals across Europe for 2014-2017. 16 Tramadol is currently not on the list of controlled substances regulated by the International Narcotics Control Board. In France, tramadol is a prescription-only medicine. ...
... In addition, participants consisted of a large number of recreational users who reported using MDMA/Ecstasy always or often within the context of electronic dance music events (36 %), music festivals (34 %), house parties (18 %), concert venues (13 %), or nightclubs and bars (12 %), where energy might be a more salient motive than for users choosing to use at home or a friend's home (36 %). Prior research indicates that MDMA/Ecstasy is almost exclusively used in a polysubstance context (Noseda et al., 2021). Therefore, it is possible that recreational Ecstasy users may have divergent motives for other substances relative to non-MDMA users and as such, there may be significant conceptual overlap with their motives for using other substances. ...
... Conociéndose ya a nivel fisiopatológico los efectos secundarios cardiovasculares del cannabis, tanto agudos 10,11 como crónicos 12 , creemos que es necesario en el screening toxicológico a pacientes con síndrome coronario agudo incluir su detección 13 . Además, es destacable que consuman más de una sustancia el 39% de los pacientes del estudio 14 . ...