Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure

A 37-year-old woman experienced a witnessed generalized seizure in the Emergency Department three hours after ingesting approximately 1400 mg of fluoxetine in a suicide attempt. Although the majority of fluoxetine ingestions are benign, seizures may occur after large intentional overdoses.

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Autor principal: Suchard, Jeffrey R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2008
Materias:
Toxicology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561732
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description A 37-year-old woman experienced a witnessed generalized seizure in the Emergency Department three hours after ingesting approximately 1400 mg of fluoxetine in a suicide attempt. Although the majority of fluoxetine ingestions are benign, seizures may occur after large intentional overdoses.
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spelling pubmed-26722572009-06-24 Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure Suchard, Jeffrey R. West J Emerg Med Toxicology A 37-year-old woman experienced a witnessed generalized seizure in the Emergency Department three hours after ingesting approximately 1400 mg of fluoxetine in a suicide attempt. Although the majority of fluoxetine ingestions are benign, seizures may occur after large intentional overdoses. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2008-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2672257/ /pubmed/19561732 Text en Copyright © 2008 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Suchard, Jeffrey R.
Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title_full Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title_fullStr Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title_full_unstemmed Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title_short Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure
title_sort fluoxetine overdose-induced seizure
topic Toxicology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561732
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