Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4182259 L'Encéphale 2010 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
Clinicians and especially psychiatrists should be aware of possible interaction and the risk of serotonin syndrome when a patient receives a combination of different opioid analgesics and serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants. Improved information and collaboration with somatic and pain specialists and the general practitioners could help reduce the occurrence of this syndrome which can have dreadful consequences. Patients must be informed of such complications, which means that patients should be asked for a history of such events and monitored for serotoninergic adverse events, in order to avoid delays in this diagnosis.
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