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Self-induced drug intoxication in baclofen: of the calm hypotonic coma in the status epilepticus Volume 74, issue 3, Mai-Juin 2016

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1 Pôle bloc anesthésie réanimation urgences, Hôpital d’instruction des armées Clermont Tonnerre, BCRM de Brest, France
2 Laboratoire de biologie médicale, Hôpital d’instruction des armées Clermont Tonnerre, BCRM de Brest, France

Baclofen is an agonist of peripheral and central B gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors, whose activation causes a myorelaxation and a powerfull depression of the central nervous system. Moreover, it has an action against addiction, in reducing craving. Commercialized since 1975 in France, to control muscle spasticity due to medullar affection or multiple sclerosis, it receives a temporary recommendation of use in march 2014, as a last-line adjuvant treatment in alcohol withdrawal. Beyond its therapeutic use, baclofen is involved in many self-induced intoxications. We report the case of a patient who develops, after a massive ingestion of baclofen (supposed dose ingested: 1 200 mg), a hypotonic and calm coma, requiring her admission in our intensive care unit, and then a status epilepticus.