A Case of Trazodone Overdose Successfully Rescued With Lipid Emulsion Therapy

Trazodone is a very common medication prescribed to patients who suffer from insomnia. The toxic effects of trazodone remain ill-defined with no current known antidote therapy. Lipid emulsion therapy has been described as general rescue therapy in toxicology. Unfortunately, only select substance ove...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Roger, Burg, Joshua, Mullen, Jeff
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178517
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10864
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description Trazodone is a very common medication prescribed to patients who suffer from insomnia. The toxic effects of trazodone remain ill-defined with no current known antidote therapy. Lipid emulsion therapy has been described as general rescue therapy in toxicology. Unfortunately, only select substance overdoses respond to lipid emulsion therapy. The authors present a unique application of lipid emulsion therapy in a post-cardiac arrest situation involving a trazodone overdose.
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spelling pubmed-76520182020-11-10 A Case of Trazodone Overdose Successfully Rescued With Lipid Emulsion Therapy Taylor, Roger Burg, Joshua Mullen, Jeff Cureus Emergency Medicine Trazodone is a very common medication prescribed to patients who suffer from insomnia. The toxic effects of trazodone remain ill-defined with no current known antidote therapy. Lipid emulsion therapy has been described as general rescue therapy in toxicology. Unfortunately, only select substance overdoses respond to lipid emulsion therapy. The authors present a unique application of lipid emulsion therapy in a post-cardiac arrest situation involving a trazodone overdose. Cureus 2020-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7652018/ /pubmed/33178517 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10864 Text en Copyright © 2020, Taylor 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652018/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10864
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