Learning objectives:
After participating in this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the growing scope of the problem of methamphetamine use.
- Recognize the physiologic effects of methamphetamine use in the acute and chronic phases.
- Describe how to safely manage patients with acute methamphetamine intoxication and those with chronic use in the perioperative setting.
- Use an approach to mitigate methamphetamine psychosis in the perioperative period.