Drug screening assisted in the diagnosis and treatment of a coma patient caused by esazolam poisoning:a case report
Coma patients caused by drug poisoning are often in a state of interruption or complete loss of consciousness when they are admitted to the hospital,so they can't provide valid information which increases the difficulty of early clinical diagnosis and treatment.Rapid screening and determination of drugs that may cause poisoning through laboratory analysis methods can provide an important diagnosis basis for the clinical to treat the patients and strive for valuable time.This paper records an 84-year-old female patient who was comatose after taking estazolam.The patient was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction.Anticoagulation was given to improve circulation,but the patient'status was not obviously improved.After drug screening by pharmacists,it was confirmed that the patient was poisoned by estazolam.After targeted treatment,the patient gradually woke up and was discharged.