Catatonic Coma in a Patient With Schizophrenia Receiving Palliative Care With Reversal of Symptoms With Lorazepam

Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2023 Feb 2;25(1):22cr03301. doi: 10.4088/PCC.22cr03301.

Authors

David R Spiegel^{1

2}, Ann Ayzman¹, Faith E Reid¹, Kripa Ahuja¹, James Worfolk¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia.
² Corresponding author: David R. Spiegel, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Ave, Norfolk, VA 23507 (spiegedr@evms.edu).

PMID: 36763823
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.22cr03301

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Catatonia* / complications
Catatonia* / drug therapy
Coma / chemically induced
Coma / complications
Coma / therapy
Humans
Lorazepam / therapeutic use
Palliative Care
Schizophrenia* / complications
Schizophrenia* / drug therapy

Substances

Lorazepam