Citalopram-induced ventricular tachycardia under general anesthesia

Within the 2 weeks leading to this event, she had placement of a stent in the right bile duct, an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram, an insertion of a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) catheter, and a staging laparoscopy, under multiple episodes of uneventful general anesthe...

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Published inSaudi journal of anaesthesia Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 496 - 498
Main Authors Roche-Kelly, Emma, Fang, Cheng, Lewis, Dylan, Kane, Pauline, Goonasekera, Chulananda
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd 01.07.2018
Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Subjects
Anesthesia
Cardiac arrhythmia
Citalopram
Coma
Consent
Electrocardiography
Heart rate
Letters to Editor
Ventricular tachycardia
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Summary:Within the 2 weeks leading to this event, she had placement of a stent in the right bile duct, an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram, an insertion of a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) catheter, and a staging laparoscopy, under multiple episodes of uneventful general anesthesia (GA). [...]an anesthetic interaction has not been previously reported. [...]through a process of exclusion, we infer citalopram-induced cardiac sensitivity to inhaled anesthetic agents, was the most likely cause of her cardiac arrhythmia. Anesthetic-related cardiac arrest and its mortality: A report covering 72,959 anesthetics over 10 years from a US teaching hospital.
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ISSN:1658-354X
0975-3125
DOI:10.4103/sja.SJA_784_17