Prolonged delirium without anticholinergic signs following amitriptyline overdose
Gomolin, I.H.; Melmed, C.A.
Canadian Medical Association Journal 129(11): 1203-1204
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-4409 PMID: 6640457 Document Number: 217564
In a case of acute intoxication with a tricyclic antidepressant (amitriptyline) delirium was prolonged without there being prominent peripheral anticholinergic or electrocardiographic signs. Administration of physostigmine, repeated when necessary, reversed the delirium.
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