[Life-threatening respiratory depression after pain therapy]

Abstract

The case is reported of a female patient with attack-like neuropathic pain following lower arm injury with repeated respiratory depression and unconsciousness even after several administrations of sufficiently dosed analgetics for suppression of the attacks. Readers are encouraged to make their own diagnosis on the basis of the clinical findings and to discuss the case online (http://www.blogs.springer.com/DerSchmerz). The discussion and the solution will be published in the next issue.