Amytal interview using intravenous lorazepam in a patient with dissociative fugue

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 544-545

  Ilechukwu, Sunday T C ^a   Henry, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALINGERING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RAPE; RECALL; SEXUAL CRIME; SMOKING; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LORAZEPAM; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33750506509     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2006.08.001     Document Type: Letter

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