Drug-facilitated Crime: A Diagnosis to Remember in the Emergency Department
Journal Title: Journal of Toxicology and Risk Assessment - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
We report on a case of a young man arrived to the emergency department (ED) of the local hospital in a sleepy, confused state, and exhibiting anterograde amnesia. He reported to have been robbed. Toxicological analysis performed in his blood sample with a general unknown screening procedure including mass spectrometry detection revealed the presence of zolpidem. This case suggests that emergency physicians should consider drug-facilitated crimes in the differential diagnosis of acute confusion state or anterograde amnesia without an evident clinical reason.
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Drug-facilitated Crime: A Diagnosis to Remember in the Emergency Department
We report on a case of a young man arrived to the emergency department (ED) of the local hospital in a sleepy, confused state, and exhibiting anterograde amnesia. He reported to have been robbed. Toxicological analysis p...