063 - More is not always better - Story of Serotonin Syndrome

HelixTalk - Rosalind Franklin University's College of Pharmacy Podcast

Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS

Health & Fitness, Medications, Rosalindfranklin, Rfums, Pharmacy, Pharmd, Pharmacist, Medicine, Drugs

5 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss several aspects of serotonin syndrome including the typical clinical presentation, its etiology and common drug-induced combinations, and how to appropriately manage the syndrome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Helix Talk, an educational podcast for healthcare students and providers covering real-life clinical pearls, professional pharmacy topics, and drug therapy discussions.
0:11.0	This podcast is provided by pharmacists and faculty members at Rosal Franklin University College of Pharmacy.
0:17.0	This podcast contains general information for educational purposes only. This is not
0:22.0	professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified
0:26.0	health care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 63. I'm
0:33.6	your co-host Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Shewomen. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today we are going to talk about Saratounin syndrome.
0:41.4	It was not always better story of Sanatronin syndrome.
0:44.9	And I've always talked to my colleagues here, Dr. Schumann and Kane.
0:49.8	How I thought Sarah Torin Syndrome was just something that was in the books and I was never going to see it.
0:55.0	I never really expected to have some sort of a care enrollment from mental health perspective.
1:01.0	But my one month into the clinic, I was consulted on a patient case.
1:05.9	So I thought, why not use that patient case to kind of incorporate what we're learning today about
1:12.5	serotonin syndrome? That's great. So Dr. Mattel, why don't you tell us about the case that you had
1:16.8	at your clinic? So obviously, I have the fictitious name, Angela. She was a 42-year-old female
1:21.9	patient who came to her internal medicine clinic appointment. She actually had called for a special request,
1:29.3	and that's because she was experiencing tremors in their arms, excessive sweating,
1:35.3	just feeling up, impeding doom, restlessness, palpitation and fever over the past 48 hours.
1:43.3	No nausea and vomiting, but with all this going on, she wasn't able to eat a whole lot.
1:49.3	She was at home because she couldn't go to work with all these symptoms going on.
1:53.7	She denied any of these episodes occurring in past, so this was the first time it was happening to her.
1:59.5	And she denied any pain in the chest, certain shrunk breath, any kind of recent travels.
2:06.4	And her period was three weeks ago reported.
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