Open AccessSuccessful treatment of excessive dose of carbamazepine
Author(s) -
Selçuk Yaylacı,
Mustafa Demır,
Bilgehan Atılgan Acar,
Savaş Sipahi,
Ali Tamer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.96353
Subject(s) - carbamazepine , coma (optics) , medicine , antidote , anesthesia , hemodialysis , anticonvulsant , epilepsy , toxicity , surgery , psychiatry , physics , optics
Carbamazepine is used in the treatment of epilepsy; it is also prescribed for treatment of neuralgic pain syndromes and certain affective disorders. Carbamazepine intoxication with suicide attempt is a relatively common clinical problem that can result in coma, respiratory depression, arrhythmia, hemodynamic instability, and death. There is no specific antidote. Multiple-dose activated charcoal and hemodialysis are the main treatment for carbamazepine intoxication. In this paper, we report the case of a 19-year-old woman with excessive dose carbamazepin intoxication and our successful treatment with multiple-dose activated charcoal and hemodialysis.