Abstract
Comment: This paper serves as a powerful reminder that the use of “crack” cocaine has become distressingly common in the western world and must be considered as a potential perioperative complication that has extremely serious anesthetic implications. Questioning of patients about recreational drug use should become routine. Moreover, it is imperative that the anesthesiologist be aware of the pathophysiologic effects of both acute cocaine intoxication and chronic cocaine abuse.
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