Recognition and management of antidepressant overdoses: tricyclics and trazodone. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Serious overdoses associated with tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants are frequently lethal. Problems associated with tricyclic antidepressant overdoses are usually the result of an acute or an acute-on-chronic overdosage. The patient who overdoses on tricyclic antidepressants may die, despite every medical effort to save him. An overdose of trazodone significantly differs from an overdose of a tricyclic antidepressant. The currently available clinical data indicate that coma and hypotension are the main concerns with trazodone overdose, and heretofore have been successfully treated with lavage, fluid therapy, and observation.

publication date

  • January 1, 1986

Research

keywords

  • Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic
  • Trazodone

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0022885318

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1159/000118287

PubMed ID

  • 3725005

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 15 Suppl 1