Body Packers

Body packers are people who carry drugs such as heroine or cocaine, packed in rubber or plastic (something like a tied condom!), in theirs body in order to smuggle them. Things can go wrong (as they usually do!) and they can present with symptoms that vary from mild abdominal complaints to respiratory insufficiency and even death! The drugs most often involved in body packing are heroin and cocaine. Body packers can present in the emergency department as a result of ruptured drug packets, bowel obstruction, or for medicolegal purposes. Suspected cases are diagnosed with X-ray and computed tomography scan of the abdomen. Symptomatic patients require urgent removal of packets, often via surgical intervention.

0:00 Body Packers
0:47 Who is body packing?
1:20 How is body packing done?
2:23 What can go wrong in body packing?
2:47 Cocaine overdose
3:20 Heroin overdose
3:28 How to treat body packers?
4:19 Naloxone spray to help body packers
4:49 GI tract obstruction in body packers
5:00 Bowel perforation in body packers
5:43 Body stuffers vs Body packers

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