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Successful intravenous lipid emulsion therapy: Olanzapine intoxication

Author(s) -

Selman Yeniocak,

Ali Kemal Kalkan,

Dogan Metin,

Alperen Demirel,

R Sut,

İbrahim Akkoç

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

acute medicine journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1747-4892

pISSN - 1747-4884

DOI - 10.52964/amja.0706

Subject(s) - olanzapine , lipid emulsion , intravenous therapy , medicine , pharmacology , emulsion , intravenous fluid , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , parenteral nutrition , chemistry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , biochemistry

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

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