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  • Title: [A postoperative syndrome of confusion and stupor or a central anticholinergic syndrome?].
    Author: Carras PM, Mion G, Pats B.
    Journal: Cah Anesthesiol; 1992; 40(3):212-3. PubMed ID: 1515962.
    Abstract:
    A case is reported of a 23 year old man who sustained a central anticholinergic syndrome after undergoing upper limb surgery under regional anaesthesia and sedation with 2 mg midazolam and 75 micrograms fentanyl. The disturbances consisted of excitation and inhibition. On the 4th postoperative day, he developed progressive coma, quickly and totally reversed with 2 mg physostigmine. Chronic benzodiazepine therapy seems to be a facilitating factor of central anticholinergic syndrome. The low rate of this postoperative complication seems to proceed from failure to recognize it. Differential diagnosis and place of physostigmine therapy are discussed.
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