METHOD OF DIAGNOSING DESOMORPHINE DEPENDENCE IN PATIENTS WITH THERMAL BURNS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, in particular to addictology, psychiatry and combustiology. Etiology and localisation of burns, presence of associated pathology are identified, psychological and social portrait of patient is determined. In case of presence of injury with flame, discrepancy of burn injury localisation and burn disease severity with patient's description of circumstances under which it was obtained, smell of chemical substance burning and soot, localisation of burns on face, neck and posterior surface of body, hands, forearms, presence of airway burns, symptoms of lymphangitis, lymphangaitis, phlebitis and thrombophlebitis, presence of behaviour in absence of critics with stable mental disorders, absence of job or study, desomorphine dependence is diagnosed in patient. If several patients with analogous etiology and localisation of burns, associated pathology, psychological and social portrait, group desomorphine dependence is diagnosed.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to obtain clinical criteria of diagnosing desomorphine dependence in patients with thermal burns.

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