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Packers, pushers and stuffers--managing patients with concealed drugs in UK emergency departments
Emergency Medicine Journal, 04/27/09
Booker RJ et al. - Emergency surgery is indicated for body packers with cocaine poisoning and for some cases of heroin poisoning. Urgent surgery is indicated for obstruction, perforation, the passage of packet fragments and failure of conservative treatment. Guidance is given for doctors who are faced with requests from the authorities to perform intimate searches and diagnostic imaging for forensic purposes.
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