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His old age could have effected how intensely the cocaine affected his body, but due to how small the amount was, I would not have expected it to happen. 3. The relatively small amount of cocaine metabolites found in the bloodstream indicates that this was either a first time use of cocaine or at least the first use of cocaine in several weeks. Can you tell In other ways if the deceased was a regular user or a one-time user? Can family be trusted to give accurate information about a loved one’s drug use?
Family could be asked bout the patient’s history with drugs. Even if they don’t tell the truth, they are the most accurate source of information that would be available after the patient is deceased. 4. Identify the significance of EACH drug found in the toxicology report, I. E. , where did they come from? Can all substances found in the toxicology report be accounted for by the known patient history? Ethanol, cytokine, loading, allotrope, cocaine, telecommunication, benediction, cocooning methyl ester, metropolis, and caffeine were found in the blood.
Nicotine, cytokine, cocaine, telecommunication, benediction, cocooning methyl ester, metropolis, and caffeine were found in the urine. The mix of cocaine and alcohol can cause telecommunication, which is damaging to the heart. The patient history could be reported falsely and the toxicology report could give more insight into the patient history. 5. Were the cocaine metabolites of any concern? Did they have any effect on the patient? Yes they were Of concern because they take longer to leave the body than cocaine, hence causing more damage.
The mix of cocaine and alcohol can cause telecommunication, which is also damaging to the heart. 6. Did ethanol contribute to this death? Is so, in what way? It could have, because it was mixing with cocaine. This caused the metabolites that are very damaging to the body. 7. Did this individual have an increased sensitivity to cocaine toxicity? In other words, would he have reacted more strongly than anticipated to cocaine? If so, why? Yes, due to his age his body wasn’t as strong enough to recover from body damage caused by drug usage. 8.
Write a short narrative describing this person’s actions and why you think he died. This man’s wife cheated on him so he became depressed. He started going to a lot of bars and drinking and smoking. In a few of these bars he was peer pressured into doing drugs. These drugs lead him to enjoy the feeling of being high and drunk, so he continued to occasionally hang out with the people providing him cocaine. His body was not good at handling the amount of damage being inflicted on it by the drugs and alcohol due to his old age, and eventually led to too much, causing a stroke. Concentrations of drugs in the urine are not meaningful for interpreting doses taken or toxicity but are meaningful for determining exposure. Why? The urine could contain traces of the substance, but most of the substance could have filtered into the bloodstream. So the amount ingested wouldn’t all come out into the urine, but the fact that it was used, would. 10. Why did Dopamine and the various blood pressure drugs administered in ICC not show up on the toxicology screen? The test only administers illegal or easily abused drugs.