Serotonin syndrome presenting as hypotonic coma and apnea: Potentially fatal complications of selective serotonin receptor inhibitor therapy

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 473-476

  Chechani, Vijay ^a  

^a Covenant Family Healthcare ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Apnea; Cetalopram; Coma; Fluoxetine; Serotonin syndrome

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; EYELID DISEASE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYDRIASIS; MYOCLONUS; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SALIVATION DISORDER; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; TREMOR; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036174528     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200202000-00033     Document Type: Article

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