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Acute Ethchlorvynol (Placidyl®) Intoxication
- RICHARD P. ROBBINS, M.D.; and
- DANIEL J. APPELROUTH, M.D.
- Department of Medicine
University of Miami School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami, Fla. 33136
Excerpt
To the editor: We would like to report another case of acute ethchlorvynol (Placidyl®) intoxication presenting with the typical clinical picture as described by Teehan and associates in a recent article in the ANNALS (72:875-882, 1970).
The patient, a 74-year-old white woman with a previous history of two suicide gestures, presented to the emergency room of Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, deeply comatose, areflexic, with a blood pressure of 130/80, rectal temperature of 94 F, a pulse of 60, and no spontaneous respirations. The patient had been seen previously at another hospital and was intubated and treated with gastric lavage, which
