attempted suicide by insulin injecti on treated with hypertonic glucose solution

نویسندگان

mohammad abdollahi from the department of toxicology, faculty of pharmacy, tehran university of medical sciences,

naser jalali the faculty of medicine, loghman hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, i r.lran.

mohammad sharifzadeh

gholamreza karimi

چکیده

a young woman with no history of diabetes tried to commit suicide by injecting 2800 units of subcutaneous nph insulin. she was transferred to loghman hospital within 12 hours. the main clinical symptom was continuous seizure activity which was resistant to all forms of routine drug therapy. the patient was treated with intravenous hypertonic glucose (50%) followed by continuous glucose (10%) infusion. the patient was discharged from the hospital after 8 days without any sequelae.

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medical journal of islamic republic of iran

جلد ۱۲، شماره ۱، صفحات ۸۵-۸۷

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