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Substance Misuse
Question | Answer |
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what are some things that substance misusers are at greater risk of? | violence, malnourishment, social exclusion, blood borne viruses |
what are some of the signs of neonatal abstinence syndrome | CNS hyperirritability, GI dysfunction, RDS Autonomic instability |
what are the general clinical features of NAS | Restlessness, tremors, sleep disturbance, hypertonia, sweating, diarrhoea |
what are the specific clinical features of heroin NAS | snuffly nose, tachypnoea, cyanosis, apnoea, exaggerated sucking and rooting reflex |
how are babys experiencing NAS cared for? | quiet dark environment, minimal handling, swaddled, regular feeding of small portions, continuos resp and HR monitoring |
what are some of the medications given to relief NAS | phenobarbitone, paregonic, morphine |
which drug do babies born to drug using mothers not recieve after birth | naloxone |