Accidental intoxication with 60 mg intrathecal baclofen: Survived

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 428-432

  Berger, Benjamin ^a   Vienenkoetter, Barbara ^a   Korporal, Mirjam ^a   Rocco, Andrea ^a   Meinck, Hans Michael ^a   Steiner, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Baclofen intoxication; Baclofen withdrawal; Intrathecal baclofen; ITB pump; Seizure

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; CLONIDINE; DIPYRONE; ETIRACETAM; HARKOSERIDE; NORADRENALIN; PARACETAMOL; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROPOFOL; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; CENTRAL MUSCLE RELAXANT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOMATISM; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COMA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFUSION; DELIRIUM; DIZZINESS; DRAINAGE CATHETER; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTUBATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRATHECAL PUMP; INTUBATION; MEDICATION ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WEAKNESS; INFUSION PUMP; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PARAPLEGIA; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

BACLOFEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; PARAPLEGIA; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84873032876     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-011-9669-6     Document Type: Article

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