Clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of acute intoxication by baclofen
Grebeniuk, A.N.; Manuĭlov, V.M.; Butikov, V.P.; Gerasimov, G.L.; Vasiliuk, V.B.; Bagrov, A.V.; Kuznetsov, P.V.
Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal 330(7): 18-23
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9050 PMID: 19827663 Document Number: 632114
For last few years in Russia and in the Armed Forces of RF is marked a growth of number of acute intoxications by GABA-agonists and by muscle relaxants, particularly by baclofen. Manifestations of intoxication by this specimen include cerebral and somatic-vegetal disorders, in grave cases of illness could evolve psychic excitement, delusions and coma. Treatment of baclofen intoxication compares of gastric lavage using a thick pathfinder, accompanied by insertion of adsorbent and apocathartic means, maintaining of impaired vital functions of body. Hereafter these injured patients should be hospitalized in a treatment institute, where exists a possibility of effectuating of reanimation and intensive care as well as extracorporal detoxication (hemosorption, hemodialysis).