Open AccessSuccessful intravenous lipid emulsion therapy: Olanzapine intoxication
Author(s) -
Selman Yeniocak,
Ali Kemal Kalkan,
D D Metin,
Alican Demirel,
R Sut,
İbrahim Akkoç
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0706
Subject(s) - olanzapine , medicine , lipid emulsion , antipsychotic , drug , atypical antipsychotic , antipsychotic drug , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , pharmacology , anesthesia , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , parenteral nutrition
Olanzapine is an antipsychotic drug used in psychiatric diseases. At high doses it exhibits cardiovascular and neurological sideeffects in particular. Lipid emulsion therapy for the removal of medication from plasma in high-dose lipophilic drug use has recently become very widespread. In the light of current literature, this report discusses the successful treatment of a patient within 4 hrs of olanzapine overdose as an attempted suicide, who presented with agitation and clouded consciousness