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Bezoar causing small bowel obstruction after repeated activated charcoal administration
Author(s) -
Chan Justin C Y,
Saranasuriya Chaminda,
Waxman Bruce P
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07158.x
Subject(s) - bezoar , activated charcoal , medicine , charcoal , administration (probate law) , bowel obstruction , anesthesia , surgery , chemistry , adsorption , organic chemistry , political science , law
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 21 November 2005 183 10 537-537 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2005 www.mja.com.au Snapshot and was discharged home. The patient was hospitalised aga n 3 days later co constant sharp abdominal pain, diagnosed on cultur tract infection. Over the ext 4 days, she experien bouts of nausea, charcoal vomits and colicky centr pain. 30 pr 40 A -year-old woman with a history of bipolar disorder esented after ingestion of 4 g of carbamazepine and mg of alprazolam in a suicide attempt. She became increasingly drowsy and eventually required intubation and mechanical ventilation. The patient received a total of 350 g of activated charcoal via a nasogastric tube over 25 hours. She experienced some charcoalstained vomiting, but made an otherwise unremarkable recovery