A Case of Life-threatening Amlodipine and Atenolol Overdose.

Amlodipine Atenolol Bradycardia Hyperinsulinaemia/euglycaemia therapy Hypotension

Journal

Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
ISSN: 0972-5229
Titre abrégé: Indian J Crit Care Med
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101208863

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jun 2019
Historique:
entrez: 23 8 2019
pubmed: 23 8 2019
medline: 23 8 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Treating a patient of amlodipine-atenolol poisoning is nightmare for a physician. In high dose both the drugs individually cause severe bradycardia and hypotension. In combination they cause severe cardiovascular depression. Here we report a case of 66-year-old obese, hypertensive, depressed male, who presented to emergency 9 hours after consumption of 25 tablets of amlodipine-atenolol (5 mg+50 mg). On evaluation, he had refractory bradycardia, hypotension and acute kidney injury (AKI). Eventually he developed cardiac arrest. He was revived after 5 minutes of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He was successfully managed with gastric lavage, fluids, inotropes, atropine, isoprenaline and subsequently with calcium gluconate infusion, high-dose insulin euglycemia therapy (HIET) and lipid emulsion therapy. Glucagon infusion was also planned but it was not available. Patient hemodynamics improved and on 8th day he got the discharge. Our case exemplifies the importance of timely and aggressive management of lethal overdose of amlodipine-atenolol poisoning.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31435148
doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23181
pmc: PMC6698349
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

281-283

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Source of support: Nil Conflict of interest: None

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Auteurs

Sudheer Tale (S)

Department of Internal medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Mohan Kumar (M)

Department of Internal medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Soumitra Ghosh (S)

Department of Internal medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Ashish Bhalla (A)

Department of Internal medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

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