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Dissociative mental state in a patient with an intrathecal drug administration system
John P R Loughrey1, Srdjan S Nedeljković
1Department of Anesthesia, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jloughrey@partners.org
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|September 28, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
We describe a patient with acute mental status changes, which resolved on removal of medication from the reservoir of a Synchromed intrathecal pump. This report highlights the potential adverse mental affects of chronic spinal infusions for pain therapy and discusses pitfalls in toxicology analysis using immunoassay.