A 65-year-old woman was found unconscious (Glasgow Coma Scale 3/15) and with respiratory failure (gasping) at the pneumology ward where she had been admitted for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. She had a history of psychiatric disorders treated with several psychoactive drugs and a recent traumatic lumbar vertebral fracture requiring the introduction of analgesics. [...]
Trungu, J., Laarbaui, F., Dechamps, M., & Hantson, P. (2019). Rapidly fatal neurological and cardiocirculatory failure in a patient recently treated with nefopam. Minerva Anestesiologica, 85(5), 561-562. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0375-9393.18.13395-5 (Original work published 2019)