@article{77ee2f0d350044ed87ccbf5f75cb0739,
title = "Fluoxetine Overdose in an Adolescent",
abstract = "The response to and management of an acute ingestion of a large quantity of fluoxetine hydrochloride in a 13-year-old boy with Tourette's syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder is described. The patient's symptomatic course following the ingestion included a grand mal seizure, depressed ST segments on EKG, nausea, dizziness, and headache. In general, the fluoxetine was well tolerated: all of the symptoms and signs remitted spontaneously.",
keywords = "adolescent, fluoxetine hydrochloride, overdose",
author = "RIDDLE, {MARK A.} and NANCY BROWN and DAVID DZUBINSKI and JETMALANI, {AJIT N.} and YUK LAW and WOOLSTON, {JOSEPH L.}",
note = "Funding Information: Accepted December 23. 1988. From the Departments ofPsychiatry and Pediatrics and the Child Study Center, Yale University School ofMedicine, New Haven, Connecticut. This research received support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the Gateposts Foundation. and the Tourette's Syndrome Association. Support for the jluoxetine blood levels and the toxicology screen was provided by Lilly Research Laboratories. The authors thank the child psychiatry and pediatric nursing staff ofYale-New Haven Hospital for skilled clinical care. Reprint requests to Dr. Riddle, Yale Child Study Center. P.O. Box 3333. New Haven. CT 06510-8008. 0890-8567/89/2804-O587$02.00/0{\textcopyright} 1989 by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.",
year = "1989",
doi = "10.1097/00004583-198907000-00019",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "28",
pages = "587--588",
journal = "Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
issn = "0890-8567",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "4",
}