Thursday, September 10, 2009

Thursday September 10, 2009
Propofol Abuse Growing Problem for Anesthesiologists

"One addict fell asleep at his desk so often that his lolling forehead became a perpetual bruise. Another was so desperate for a fix that he started trolling through sharps bins for discarded needles with traces of drug to inject.

The addicts were two doctors, an anesthesiologist and a family physician. Their drug of choice: propofol.

If that’s surprising, consider this: One in five academic anesthesiology training programs reported at least one case of abuse by physicians or other healthcare workers over the past decade, new research shows. The incidence of propofol abuse has risen fivefold over the last 10 years"



- CLINICAL ANESTHESIOLOGY - ISSUE: MAY 2007 VOLUME: 33:05 -

www.anesthesiologynews.com/