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Visual Hallucinations from Zolpidem Use for the Treatment of Hospital Insomnia in a Septuagenarian

Insomnia and parasomnias are common patient complaints during hospital stay. New environment, the severity of underlying disease, level of care, medications, and infections are all known factors that contribute toward insomnia. Zolpidem is a common sleep aid used for this purpose. We report a case o...

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Autor principal: Mian, Raza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6411327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891388
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3848
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description Insomnia and parasomnias are common patient complaints during hospital stay. New environment, the severity of underlying disease, level of care, medications, and infections are all known factors that contribute toward insomnia. Zolpidem is a common sleep aid used for this purpose. We report a case of Zolpidem-induced visual hallucination in a septuagenarian in the inpatient setting.
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spelling pubmed-64113272019-03-19 Visual Hallucinations from Zolpidem Use for the Treatment of Hospital Insomnia in a Septuagenarian Mian, Raza Cureus Family/General Practice Insomnia and parasomnias are common patient complaints during hospital stay. New environment, the severity of underlying disease, level of care, medications, and infections are all known factors that contribute toward insomnia. Zolpidem is a common sleep aid used for this purpose. We report a case of Zolpidem-induced visual hallucination in a septuagenarian in the inpatient setting. Cureus 2019-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6411327/ /pubmed/30891388 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3848 Text en Copyright © 2019, Mian et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Visual Hallucinations from Zolpidem Use for the Treatment of Hospital Insomnia in a Septuagenarian
title_sort visual hallucinations from zolpidem use for the treatment of hospital insomnia in a septuagenarian
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6411327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891388
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3848
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