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- Title
One confused patient, many confused physicians: a case of delayed post-hypoxic leucoencephalopathy.
- Authors
Wallace, I. R.; Dynan, C.; Esmonde, T.
- Abstract
The article presents a case report of a 28-year-old man who was diagnosed with the problems of confusion and inappropriate behaviour. He used to take cocaine and heroin. He was admitted in a hospital where he was treated with naloxone which improved his level of consciousness. His health was declining both physicaly as well as mentally. It needed a period of ventilatory and haemodynamic support in intensive care unit during treatment for a labor pneumonia. Thenafter, he began to improve slowly.
- Subjects
COGNITION disorders; COCAINE; THERAPEUTICS; NALOXONE; CONSCIOUSNESS; PNEUMONIA treatment; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2010, Vol 103, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
1460-2725
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/qjmed/hcp155