Survival of a Highly Toxic Dose of Caffeine.
Survival of a highly toxic dose of caffeine.
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BMJ Case Rep. 2013; 2013:
Bioh G, Gallagher MM, Prasad U
A 27-year-old woman with a history of depression and previous overdose presented within 60 min of ingestion of 50 g of caffeine powder. Initially alert but hypotensive and tachycardic, the patient developed a broad complex tachycardia followed by a seizure and multiple ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrests. Following multiple defibrillations for VF, eight cycles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and treatment with amiodarone, lidocaine, magnesium and potassium supplementation, the patient went to the intensive care unit (ICU). While there, the patient had further VF and required haemofiltration for a profound metabolic acidaemia with cardiac rhythm instability. She developed a postcardiac arrest systemic inflammatory response syndrome with episodes of acute pulmonary oedema, profound vasoplegia, hypothermia and coagulopathy. After 5 days in the ICU, the patient was stable enough to be transferred to the ward, with a persistent sinus tachycardia, and was discharged 3 days later with cardiology and psychiatry follow-up.
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The enduring mental health impact of mass violence: A community comparison study of Cambodian civilians living in Cambodia and Thailand.
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Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2013 Feb 7;
Mollica RF, Brooks R, Tor S, Lopes-Cardozo B, Silove D
BACKGROUND: No population-based studies have directly compared the long-term health and mental health outcomes of conflict- versus non-conflict-affected communities from the same ethnic background. AIMS: To identify and compare levels of psychiatric morbidity between a traumatized and non-traumatized civilian community; to investigate the long-term impact of mass violence. METHODS: Double-stratified community surveys in Siem Reap and Surin provinces were conducted by highly qualified Cambodian interviewers using culturally validated survey instruments with known psychometric properties. These included Cambodian versions of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25, the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Medical Outcome Study Short Form. RESULTS: Siem Reap and Surin respondents experienced 12,266 and 621 major trauma events, respectively; 745 (76.2%) Siem Reap respondents and six (0.6%) Surin respondents reported torture events; 499 (49.5%) Siem Reap respondents and 203 (19.7%) Surin respondents met the clinical threshold for depression (OR 4.01, 95% CI 3.29-4.88); 204 (20.6%) Siem Reap respondents and 23 (2.2%) Surin respondents met the clinical threshold for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (OR 11.39, 95% CI 7.3-17.7). The MOS physical disability was higher in Siem Reap versus Surin respondents (74 (7.5%) vs 13 (1.3%), ?2 = 47.4 df = 1, p < .001). Health status was poorest among Siem Reap respondents when compared with Surin respondents (mean score 1.59 vs 0.59, respectively; t = 19.85 df = 2018, p < .001). Path analysis reveals that recent and past extreme violence are associated with the health and mental health status of the Siem Reap community. CONCLUSION: After 25 years, the Khmer civilian population that experienced the Pol Pot genocide continues to suffer psychiatric morbidity and poor health. HubMed – depression
Physiological separation of vesicle pools in low- and high-output nerve terminals.
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Neurosci Res. 2013 Feb 7;
Wu WH, Cooper RL
Physiological differences in low- (tonic like) and high-output (phasic like) synapses match many of the expected anatomical features of these terminals. However, investigation in the recruitment of synaptic vesicles from a reserve pool (RP) to a readily releasable pool (RRP) of synaptic vesicles within these types of nerve terminals has not been fully addressed. This study highlights physiological differences and differential modulation of the vesicles in a RP for maintaining synaptic output during evoked depression of the RRP. With the use of bafilomycin A1, a vacuolar ATPase blocker, recycling vesicles are blocked in refilling with transmitter. The tonic terminal is fatigue resistant due to a large RRP, where as the phasic depresses rapidly upon continuous stimulation. These differences in rates of depression appear to be in the size and degree of utilization of the RRP of vesicles. The working model is that upon depression of the tonic terminal, serotonin (5-HT) has a large RP to act on in order to recruit vesicles to the RRP; whereas, the phasic terminal, 5-HT can recruit RP vesicles to the RRP prior to synaptic depression but not after depression. The vesicle pools are physiologically differentiated between phasic and tonic output terminals.
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