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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Anticonvulsant Overdose
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, Valproic acid, Gabapentin, levetiracetam, vigabatrin, and zonisamide, Felbamate, Tiagabine, lamotrigine, topiramate, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Treatment, Medications, Activated charcoal, Whole-bowel irrigation, Specific treatment, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: carbamazepine; carbamazepine overdose; felbamate; felbamate overdose; phenytoin; phenytoin toxicity; poisoning by anticonvulsant; valproic acid; valproic acid toxicity.
Excerpt: | |  In overdose, often only mild symptoms even with high serum levels
Most common manifestations | | – Ataxia – Nystagmus – Drowsiness |
Occasionally, choreoathetoid movements |
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