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- Title
Unrecognized catatonia as a cause for delayed weaning in Intensive Care Unit.
- Authors
Gupta, Rupesh; Saigal, Saurabh; Joshi, Rajnish; Tagore, Praveen; Rai, Nirendra; Prasad, Krishna
- Abstract
The cause of altered sensorium in critical care settings includes metabolic derangements, drug and toxin overdose, central nervous system infections, neurodegenerative disorders, vascular events, hypo‑perfusion states, and septic encephalopathy. Here, we present a case of an elderly woman who presented to us with altered sensorium with respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Her metabolic parameters, imaging, and cerebrospinal fluid study were all normal despite that she continued to remain in altered sensorium and had an unrecognized behavioral state that delayed her weaning.
- Subjects
RESPIRATORY insufficiency treatment; ARTIFICIAL respiration; CATATONIA; INTENSIVE care units; MECHANICAL ventilators; SENSORY disorders
- Publication
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2015, Vol 19, Issue 11, p693
- ISSN
0972-5229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0972-5229.169360