Sunday 2 June 2019

Nicotine and caffeine withdrawal may lead to unnecessary suffering and testing in intensive care patients

Nicotine and caffeine withdrawal can cause unnecessary suffering to patients in intensive care units (ICUs), and could be leading to unneeded laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging such as X-rays and MRIs, according to a systematic review of clinical and observational studies involving 483 adults.

* This article was originally published here