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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Antidepressants and unresponsive episodes in the elderly
  1. James McGuinness,
  2. Mark Delicata
  1. Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Woodend General Hospital, Aberdeen, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr James McGuinness, james.mcguinness.05{at}aberdeen.ac.uk, james.mcguinness{at}nhs.net

We present a case where initiation of antidepressant therapy was associated with an episode of unresponsiveness. Providing the opportunity to examine the possible pitfalls in geriatric prescribing.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-03-2012-6033

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