Drug and Alcohol Related Patient Presentations to Emergency Departments during Sporting Mass-Gathering Events: An Integrative Review

• Published in: Prehospital and disaster medicine Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 298 - 304
• Main Authors: Delany, Catherine, Crilly, Julia, Ranse, Jamie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Jems Publishing Company, Inc 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Alcohol; Alcohols; Ambulance services; Automobile racing; Bicycles; Crowding; Data collection; Disaster medicine; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Drugs; Emergency medical care; Emergency Medical Services - organization & administration; Health services; Hospitals; Humans; Intoxication; Keywords; Literature reviews; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Medicine; Resource allocation; Search engines; Search strategies; Sports; Subject heading schemes; Substance-Related Disorders - therapy; Trauma; Netherlands; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Australia; Switzerland; Amsterdam Netherlands; Maryland; alcoholic intoxication; sports; crowding; emergency medicine; mass behavior

Drug and alcohol consumption at sporting mass-gathering events (MGEs) has become part of the spectator culture in some countries. The direct and indirect effects of drug and alcohol intoxication at such MGEs has proven problematic to in-event health services as well as local emergency departments (E...