Professional paper

Poisoning with phenobarbital and phenytoin treated by haemodialysis

Z. Duraković ; Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti s poliklinikom Rebro Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
F. Plavšić ; Zavod za kliničko-laboratorijsku dijagnostiku, Klinički bolnički centar u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper deals with the course of illness in a 48-year-old man who attempted to commit suicide by taking an undefined amount of phenobarbital and phenytoin. He was admitted to hospital in a comatous state with pneumonia of both sides resulting in acute respiratory failure. He had a serum phenobarbital level of 810 mg/L, and a phenytoin level of 68 mg/L. After the treatment by haemodialysis for six hours, he regained consciousness, and serum phenobarbital concentration was 109 mg/L. On the seventh day after the beginning of illness he was transferred to a psychiatric institution.

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Hrčak ID:

153967

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/153967

Publication date:

23.12.1986.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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